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The Timbuktu, a boat owned by the Malian state-owned shipping company Compagnie Malienne de Navigation (COMANAV), had a capacity of 300 passengers and operated a route between Mopti and Timbuktu. [6] It had previously been attacked by rockets on 1 September, resulting in the death of a 12-year old and injuring a soldier and boat driver. [7] [8]
The ship-to-ship fuel transfer resulted a fire explosion and spread across both ships; Tanzanian-flagged Turkish ships' Maestro and Kandy. [note 1] [9] [10] [11] The blaze lasted more than four days. [12] Project MPSV07 salvage ship Spasatel Demidov led the fire-fighting effort but despite dowsing both ships, the fire continued to rage for five ...
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Timbuktu (/ ˌ t ɪ m b ʌ k ˈ t uː / ⓘ TIM-buk-TOO; French: Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu; Tuareg: ⵜⵏⵀⵗⵜ, romanized: Tin Bukt) is an ancient city in Mali, situated 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the Niger River.
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The captain of a merchant ship east of Yemen's Aden has reported an explosion near the ship, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said early on Sunday. Months of Red Sea ...
Spanish ship San Hermenegildo (1789) HMS Scott (1917) Severomorsk Disaster; USS Shaw (DD-373) USS Shawsheen; Japanese destroyer Shimakaze (1942) Japanese destroyer Shinonome (1927) Japanese destroyer Shirayuki (1928) USS Sims (DD-409) Sinking of the Moskva; South Amboy powder pier explosion; USS St. Lo; German auxiliary cruiser Stier; French ...
The explosion of Sansinena and technical details of the incident were featured as the first segment of the Engineering Disasters in an episode of History Channel's Modern Marvels television series. The winter of 1976–77 was a particularly bad period of oil spills and ship accidents in the US.