TANKERS COLLIDE NEAR PERSIAN GULF.—A Fleet Air Arm helicopter from the British aircraft-carrier, Bulwark, hovers over the bows of the crippled Liberian tanker, Melika, still belching smoke, as the tanker steams towards Muscat, in the Gulf of Oman. The Melika, carrying 22,000 tons of crude oil, collided with the French tanker. Fernand-Gilabert, in bad weather off the coast of Oman, south of the Persian Gulf. Led by the Bulwark, the Royal Navy helped rescue 64 survivors from the blazing tankers. Twenty-two members of the crews of the ships are believed to be dead or missing. The French tanker was towed to port by the British frigate, St. Bride’s Bay.

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28697, 22 September 1958, Page 11

TANKERS COLLIDE NEAR PERSIAN GULF.—A Fleet Air Arm helicopter from the British aircraft-carrier, Bulwark, hovers over the bows of the crippled Liberian tanker, Melika, still belching smoke, as the tanker steams towards Muscat, in the Gulf of Oman. The Melika, carrying 22,000 tons of crude oil, collided with the French tanker. Fernand-Gilabert, in bad weather off the coast of Oman, south of the Persian Gulf. Led by the Bulwark, the Royal Navy helped rescue 64 survivors from the blazing tankers. Twenty-two members of the crews of the ships are believed to be dead or missing. The French tanker was towed to port by the British frigate, St. Bride’s Bay.