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BRITISH MERLIN - IMO 5052931

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Photographer:
Malcolm Cranfield [ View profile ]
Captured:
Aug 24, 1975
Location:
Korsor, Denmark
Added:
Feb 14, 2024
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117
Image Resolution:
3,421 x 2,064

Description:

The 1962 Harland & Wolff, Glasgow, built BRITISH MERLIN was here photographed in the Danish Great Belt on 24th August 1975, probably during a voyage from Rotterdam Europoort to Norrköping in Sweden.

Renamed BP ENTERPRISE between 1965 and 1968, BRITISH MERLIN was sold to the Philippine National Oil Company in 1977 and renamed LSCO BASILAN, then in 1982 PNOC BASILAN.

She suffered and explosion and fire on 26.11.83 off La Union Province on a voyage from Manila Bay to Poro Point with a cargo of oil, kerosene and gasoline, sinking later the same day off Agoo, Luzon Island.

Vessel
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Current name:
PNOC BASILAN

Former name(s):

 -  Lsco Basilan (Until 1978 Apr)

 -  Bp Enterprise (Until 1968)

 -  British Merlin (Until 1965)

Vessel Type:
Tanker
Gross tonnage:
10,945 tons
Summer DWT:
16,608 tons

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Ian Black

4 photos

Cisco

1 photos