MV Braer
Oil tanker which ran aground during a storm off Shetland, Scotland in 1993 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The MV Braer was an oil tanker which ran aground during a storm off Shetland, Scotland, in January 1993, and nearly a week later broke up during the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Braer Storm of January 1993.
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Name | Braer |
Owner | Braer Corporation |
Operator | Canadian Ultramar Ltd |
Builder | Oshima Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Nagasaki, Japan |
Launched | 31 May 1975 |
Homeport | Monrovia, Liberia |
Identification | IMO number: 7377220 |
Fate | Ran aground near Quendale, Shetland, Scotland, in 1993 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Oil tanker |
Tonnage | 89,730 DWT |
Length | 241.51 m |
Draft | 14.15 m |
Installed power | Sumitomo-Sulzer 7RND90 (20,300 bhp) |
Propulsion | Single shaft; fixed pitch propeller |
Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
Crew | 34 (on last voyage) |
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