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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.
In 1967 French singer Serge Gainsbourg wrote a song called "Torrey Canyon", about the disaster, which appears on the B-side of his single "Comic Strip" and on his 1968 album Initials B.B. [21] [22] In series 6, episode two of the BBC motorsports show Top Gear , host James May purchases a Jaguar XJS sports car with a serious oil leak, leading co ...
The list of shipwrecks in 1967 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1967 This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
To Sir With Love" by Lulu (pictured) was the number one song of 1967. The Monkees (pictured) had four songs on the year-end chart ("I'm a Believer" at number five, "A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You" at number 60, "Pleasant Valley Sunday" at number 74, and "Daydream Believer" at number 94), the most of any artist that year.
SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on 29 November 1966, taking with her 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used to carry bulk cargoes such as iron ore but was running with only ballast when the 60-year-old ship sank.
Dramatic video shows the moment the 948-foot, Singapore-flagged container ship, named the Dali, hit the bridge, which carries Interstate 695 over the Patapsco River. The Coast Guard received a ...
Safe as Milk is the debut studio album by American music group Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, released in August 1967 by Buddah Records.A heavily blues-influenced work, the album features a 20-year-old Ry Cooder, who played guitar and wrote some of the arrangements.
"Shipwrecked" is a song by English rock band Genesis, released in December 1997 as the second single from their fifteenth album, Calling All Stations (1997). It was a minor hit, reaching No.54 in the UK [1] and No.82 in Germany. [2] The song is classified as a break-up song.