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Description:
Burnt-out tanker “Miraflores” at Antwerp, June 1963
Owner: Italian
Flag: Panama
Gross tons: 20,776
Builder: Ansaldo Cantiere Navale, Sestri Ponente, Italy
Completed 1958
February 26 1963: collided with British tanker “Abadesa” (13,571 tons gross, owned by Furness-Houlder Argentine Lines Ltd., London) in the Westerschelde & subsequently gutted by fire with the loss of 9 lives.
One report says that she was rebuilt, returned to service & scrapped in 1974.
Former name(s):
- Pericles Halcoussis (Until 1972 Jan)
- Miraflores (Until 1964 Jan)
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