• SS Torrey Canyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 118,285 long tons (120,183 t) of crude oil. She ran aground off the western...
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  • The Torrey Canyon oil spill was one of the world's most serious oil spills. The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon ran aground on rocks off the south-west coast...
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    of several Cornish beaches after a giant oil spill from the tanker SS Torrey Canyon. The West Indies Act 1967, also known as the "Associated Statehood...
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    (equivalent to $499m in 2023). The site is visited by leisure divers. SS Torrey Canyon – nearby and similar oil spill disaster in 1967 MT Haven – formerly...
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    Discoverer Rena grounding and oil spill Spectacle Reef Light SS American Star SS Torrey Canyon SS Suevic Mazaheri, A., Montewka, J., Kujala, P., (2014), "Modeling...
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  • treason and intentions of staging a coup. March 18 Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly...
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    The dropping of bombs and incendiary devices from aircraft on the SS Torrey Canyon wreck produced poor results; modern techniques would include pumping...
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    the Marshallese-flagged Deepwater Horizon, and the Liberian-flagged SS Torrey Canyon, MV Amoco Cadiz and MV Sea Empress), the most common environmental...
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    were part of the group that bombed and set on fire the supertanker SS Torrey Canyon aground and leaking crude oil on Seven Sisters rocks off Cornwall....
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    steamship that was scuttled after catching fire in the Carrick Roads. SS Torrey Canyon  Liberia 18 March 1967 A supertanker wrecked on Seven Stones reef....
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    use of them by the Buccaneer was during the attempt to break up the SS Torrey Canyon in March 1967, when 11 rockets were fired at the massive oil spill...
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    during World War II SS Thesis – Steamship wrecked in 1889 in the Sound of Mull, Scotland. Now a recreational dive site. SS Torrey Canyon – Oil tanker wrecked...
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    operating Blackburn Buccaneer, as a base to attack and bomb the oil tanker SS Torrey Canyon from, whch had struck Pollard's Rock on West end of the Seven Stones...
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  • of the Parliamentary Labour Party. 18 March – Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon ran aground between Land's End and the Scilly...
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  • and Rescue Service Newquay Cornwall Airport Fire and Rescue Service SS Torrey Canyon disaster, 18 March 1967 – This incident saw possibly the largest fire...
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    million gallons of chemicals were used in response to the supertanker SS Torrey Canyon oil spill in the United Kingdom in 1967. The incident harmed marine...
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  • he played a leading in clearing Cornwall's beaches following the SS Torrey Canyon disaster (the county's worst-ever oil spillage). From 1970 to 1972...
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  • bombing operation to break up and release oil from the tanks of the SS Torrey Canyon which had run aground off the coast of Cornwall. Burke's Peerage "No...
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    Tokai Maru – Japanese passenger-cargo ship sunk in Apra Harbor, Guam SS Torrey Canyon – Oil tanker wrecked off the coast of Cornwall SAS Transvaal – Loch-class...
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    SS Thistlegorm was a British cargo steamship that was built in Sunderland, North East England in 1940 and sunk by German bomber aircraft in the Red Sea...
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  • estimated two hundred shipwrecks overall. The most infamous is the Torrey Canyon in 1967, which was at that time the world's costliest shipping disaster...
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    SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...
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    SS Kamloops was a Canadian lake freighter that was part of the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines from its launching in 1924 until it sank with all hands...
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  • Mostert. Oswego-Guardian/Texanita collision Venpet-Venoil collision Torrey Canyon oil spill 商船建造の步み. Mitsubishi Zōsen Kabushiki Kaisha. 1959. p. 124....
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    built and served in World War II as a VC2-S-AP3 type Victory cargo ship named SS Simmons Victory. Her keel was laid down on 23 February 1945, under a Maritime...
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    terrain, where it is not easily biodegraded. In 1967, the supertanker Torrey Canyon leaked oil onto the English coastline. Alkylphenol surfactants were...
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    SS Antilla (or "ES Antilla", with "ES" standing for "Elektroschiff" German: electric ship) was a Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) cargo ship that was launched...
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    45°33′33″N 85°59′16″W / 45.559167°N 85.987778°W / 45.559167; -85.987778 SS Carl D. Bradley was an American self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that...
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    SS Mendi was a British 4,230 GRT passenger steamship that was built in 1905 and, as a troopship, sank after collision with great loss of life in 1917....
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    regions, causing oil spills. See Braer, Erika, Exxon Valdez, Prestige and Torrey Canyon for examples of tankers that have been involved in oil spills. Coastal...
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