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Tanker
1991 Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138

1987 Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die

1984 Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire

1984 Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil

1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River

1982 Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil

1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes killing 27

1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision

1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak

1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill

1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster

1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up

1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast

1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

1976 Liberian tanker stranded at Nantucket, 180,000 barrels oil in sea

1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground

1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince

1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast

1973 Biggest U.S. tanker "Brooklyn" christened (230,000 ton)

1967 Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed

1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil

1955 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum

1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die

1940 German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker

1939 German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland

1932 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada



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