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The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
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Oil tanker
Ship that carries petroleum
An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quantities of unrefined crude oil from its point of extraction…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
SS Torrey Canyon
Oil tanker wrecked off the coast of Cornwall
SS Torrey Canyon was an LR2 Suezmax class oil tanker with a cargo capacity of 118,285 long tons (120,183 t) of crude oil. She ran aground off the western coast of Cornwall, United Kingdom, on 18 March 1967, causing an environmental disaster. At that time she was the largest…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)