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Torrey Canyon oil spill : ウィキペディア英語版 | Torrey Canyon oil spill The Torrey Canyon oil spill on the southwest coast of the United Kingdom in the spring of 1967 is one of the world's most serious oil spills and left an international legal and environmental legacy that lasted decades. At the time the world's most serious oil spill, as of 2015 it remains the United Kingdom's worst, with an estimated 32 million gallons of crude oil spilled. The wreck of the supertanker affected hundreds of miles of coastline in the United Kingdom, France, Guernsey, and Spain and mitigation efforts involved bombing raids by aircraft from the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. ''Torrey Canyon'' left Mina al-Ahmadi with a full cargo of crude oil in February 1967, reached the Canary Islands in March, with an intended destination of Milford Haven in West Wales. On 18 March 1967, she struck Pollard's Rock on Seven Stones reef between the Cornish mainland and the Isles of Scilly. ==Ship construction & Extension== When laid down in the United States in 1959, she had a capacity of 60,000 tons, but the ship was enlarged in Japan to 120,000 tons capacity. At the time of the accident, she was registered in Liberia〔 〕 and owned by Barracuda Tanker Corporation, a subsidiary of Union Oil Company of California but chartered to British Petroleum. She was long, beam and draught.
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