Ship explodes after oil spill
NZPA Honolulu!; ii A crippled Liberian'i tanker, leaking millions of[) litres of crude oil through al big hole, in its port side, has J exploded in flames, igniting'l the slick around it. All but’J one of the 39 crewmen were J rescued. 1 The 254 Hawaiian Pa-, triot went up in flames’l (while it drifted 576 km west;’ of Honolulu. The leaking oil] had created an 80km slick. ] The Coast Guard praised) the rescue ship, the Philippine! Bataan, which stood by to <
pick up survivors even' 1 though it was carrying flam-i] mable goods and live ammu-IJ nition. The pilot of a Coast!Guard plane which circled the Hawaiian Patriot said that the scene after the explosion reminded him of: Pearl Harbour. t He said that smoke rose s 1500 m above the sinking] vessel, which had apparently;! lost an entire hull plate. The ‘ vessel had lost more than;' 1 9m litres of its 114 m litres[j of oil before the blast. ! t i
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Press, 26 February 1977, Page 6
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