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OLIVIA - IMO 5262665
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Photographer:Chris Howell [ View profile ]
Title:Olivia
Photo Category:Tankers Built Before 1970
Added:Aug 2, 2011
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Image Resolution:2,836 x 2,269
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Owned neg with copyright
Built 1959
69 BENTE BROVIG - 79 BLOSSOM
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explosion & broke in two 50nm W Sardinia 31.12.80 (1*) [Port de Bouc-Taranto, ballast]
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Current name:BLOSSOM
Vessel Type:Oil Products Tanker
Gross tonnage:11,834 tons
Summer DWT:7,770 tons
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Builder: Lubecker Flender Werke, Germany.
Propulsion: MAN single diesel motor, 8-cyl. - 7,200 bhp - 14 knots.
Launched: 31/10/1958. Completed: 2/2/1959.
Launched as "OLIVIA". Visited NZ twice, 1960 and 1966.
1969 - "BENTE BROVIG" - A/S Brovigtank & A/S Havfiske (Th. Brovig), Farsund, Norway.
1979 - "BLOSSOM" - Blossom Shipping Co. (Tidewater Commercial Co. Inc., Baltimore, MD). Registry - Monrovia.
31/12/1980 - exploded forward, broke in two, approx 50 nm west of Sardinia on a voyage in ballast from Port de Bouc, France to Taranto, Italy. Forepart sank. Aft section towed but broke away. One fatality. 30 survivors picked up by Soviet vessel "SPLIT" and landed at Lavera, France.
11/1/1981 - Aft section drifted aground at Cap Farina, Tunisia and abandoned.
Sources:http://www.miramarshipindex.nz
http://nzshipmarine.com
http://skipshistorie.net/
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