SS Atlantic Empress
Greek oil tanker; collided, sank, and spilled oil in the Caribbean Sea in 1979 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Name | SS Atlantic Empress |
Owner | South Gulf Shipping Co. Ltd., Greece |
Route | Beaumont, Texas |
Builder | Odense Staalskibsværft, Odense, Denmark |
Cost | $143.45 billion |
Yard number | 49 |
Launched | 16 February 1974 |
Completed | April 1974 |
Identification | IMO number: 7358975 |
Fate | Sank, 3 August 1979 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | VLCC |
Tonnage | |
Length | |
Beam | 51.8 m (169 ft 11 in) |
Draught | 22.1 m (72 ft 6 in) |
Depth | 28.4 m (93 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | Steam turbines, 23,866 kW (32,005 hp), 1 screw |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
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SS Atlantic Empress was a Greek oil tanker that in 1979 collided with the oil tanker Aegean Captain in the Caribbean, and eventually sank, having created the fifth largest oil spill on record and the largest ship-based spill having spilled 287,000 metric tonnes of crude oil into the Caribbean Sea. It was built at the Odense Staalskibsværft shipyard in Odense, Denmark, and launched on 16 February 1974.