Horta Barbosa

**Horta Barbosa** p1
Ship data
flag	Brazil
Ship type	Tanker
Callsign	PPCR
Shipyard	Odense Staalskibsværft , Lindø
Whereabouts	Scrapped in Bangladesh in 1998
Ship dimensions and crew
length	271.66 m ( Lüa )
width	42.07 m
measurement	63,403 GT
Machine system
Machine system
Transport capacities
Load capacity	116,750 dwt
Others
Registration ; numbers	IMO no. 7001261

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.

[1] Sea Star (Gulf of Oman, 1972) , The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited.

[2] Sea Star , Center of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution.