Horta Barbosa
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The Horta Barbosa was a Brazilian oil tanker .
history
The ship was built in 1969 at Odense Staalskibsværft in Lindø , Denmark. The tanker registered in Brazil had a dead weight of 116,750 tons.
On December 19, 1972, the ship collided with the Sea Star in the Gulf of Oman . Both ships caught fire. The fire on board the Horta Barbosa was extinguished within a day. The ship was then repaired at a Hamburg shipyard and put back into service in November 1973.
In September 1998, the ship was scrapped at the shipbuilding yards near Chittagong in Bangladesh .
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Footnotes
- ^ Sea Star (Gulf of Oman, 1972) , The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited.
- ^ Sea Star , Center of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution.