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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 .
List of shipwrecks in 1967; 0–9. 1967 accident for Soviet submarine Leninsky Komsomol; ... 1967 USS Forrestal fire; G. SS Gripfast; USS Guavina; H. SS Habib Marikar;
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.
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon ran aground on rocks off the south-west coast of the United Kingdom in 1967, spilling an estimated 25–36 million gallons (94–164 million litres) of crude oil. [1] Attempts to mitigate the damage included the bombing of the wreck by aircraft from the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force .
In 1967, during the vietnam war, the USS Forrestal was floating on the water not too far from the Vietnamese coast. A Zuni rocket from one aircraft flew from into the fuel tank of another aircraft, starting a big fire. Within minutes, the fire became bigger and damaged other planes. More than a hundred men and women lost their lives.
A steamboat that caught fire and sank near North Brother Island, with over 1,000 deaths. Glückauf Germany: March 1893 An oil tanker that ran aground at Fire Island. Gwendoline Steers United States: 30 December 1962 A tugboat that sunk on the approach to Huntington Bay. Harold United States: 26 September 1903
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