OIL PATCH MOVING
Winds May
Save Beaches
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SAINT BRIEUC, (North west France,) April 16 Brittany's holiday beaches, as yet unspoilt by the Torrey Canyon tanker disaster, may escape soiling by a huge black tide of oil.
Strong north-west winds were carying a vast patch of oil slowly south-westwards from the English Channel and into the Atlantic Ocean about 25 miles off the western point of the Finistere Peninsula. Reports from French naval patrol aircraft said the patch was 20 miles long, 12 miles wide and several inches thick.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31346, 17 April 1967, Page 13
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89OIL PATCH MOVING Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31346, 17 April 1967, Page 13
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