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US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
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SS Bridgeton
Kuwaiti oil tanker; struck an Iranian mine in 1987 during Operation Earnest Will
MV Bridgeton, ex-al-Rekkah, was a Kuwait Oil Company oil tanker that was reflagged to a U.S flag and renamed during Operation Earnest Will. The ship was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in its Nagasaki shipyard and launched August 14, 1976. Bridgeton was part of the first…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bridgeton incident
Maritime incident in the Persian Gulf in July 1987
The Bridgeton incident was the mining of the supertanker SS Bridgeton by Iranian IRGC navy near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf on July 24, 1987. The ship was sailing in the first convoy of Operation Earnest Will, the U.S. response to Kuwaiti requests to protect its tankers…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Military organization in Iran
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