2012 Event An estimated 90 - 115 people die when an oil tanker in Okobge, Rivers State Nigeria crashes and explodes 2012 Event Facing fuel shortages after a fall storm, preparations are made for the US Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Healy to accompany Russian tanker Renda to deliver fuel 2010 Event A fuel tanker overturns and explodes in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing over 230 people and injuring 2010 Event Somali pirates seize a German-owned tanker, MS Marida Marguerite, off the coast of Somalia 2009 Event Pirates from Somalia capture the Maran Centaurus, a Greek-owned oil tanker, off the coast of Somalia 1991 Event Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138 1987 Event Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die 1984 Event Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire 1984 Event Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil 1984 Event Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River 1982 Event Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil 1982 Event National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27 1981 Event Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision 1980 Event Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak 1980 Event Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill 1979 Event Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 1979 Event 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up 1978 Event Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1977 Event Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons 1976 Event Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea 1976 Event Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground 1976 Event 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince 1976 Event Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast 1973 Event Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton) 1967 Event Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed 1967 Event Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil 1955 Event 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum 1950 Event Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die 1940 Event German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker 1939 Event German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland 1932 Event Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
