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Despite a great length, Seawise Giant was not the largest ship by gross tonnage, ranking sixth at 260,941 GT, behind the crane ship Pioneering Spirit and the four 274,838 to 275,276 GT Batillus-class supertankers. She was the longest and largest by deadweight: 564,763 tonnes.
His contemporaries include The Reverend Canon Jeremiah Anyanwu, the first Anglican priest in the old Etiti Local Government Area of Imo State, who was born at about the same time with him in Avutu. He studied at the Teachers Training College, Oleh, Isoko, from 1946 to 1947, and at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone in 1952. [ 2 ]
The 1979 Imo State gubernatorial election occurred on July 28, 1979, in Nigeria. [1] NPP 's Samuel Onunaka Mbakwe won election for a first term to become Imo State 's first executive governor leading and, defeating main opposition, NPN 's Collins Obi, [ 2 ] in the contest.
By mid November 1979, the Independența, carrying 94,000 tons (714,760 barrels) of crude oil from Es Sider, Libya to Constanța, Romania dropped anchor about 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) off the Haydarpaşa Breakwater at the southern entrance of the Istanbul Strait.
The Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims is an IMO treaty that was concluded in London in November 1976. It entered into force in 1986, and superseded the 1957 Brussels Convention of the same name. As of October 2016, 54 states are party to the convention. [1]
The SAR Convention was adopted on 27 April 1979. [1] [5] It entered into force on 22 June 1985. [1] The Convention has been amended by IMO resolutions MSC.70(69) and MSC.155(78). [6] These respective amendments occurred in 1998 and in 2004 respectively. [7]
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.
Sundream in Tallinn Harbour, 2001. The vessel was constructed in Helsinki, Finland in 1970. Named Song of Norway, she was the first ship built for cruise line Royal Caribbean International.