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fotograferen.
The Um El Faroud was built in 1969 at Smith Dock Co. Ltd,
Middlesbrough, England and was owned by the General
National Maritime Transport Company, Tripoli (GNMTC). She
had been operating between Italy and Libya carrying refined
fuel up to 1 February 1995. On 3 February 1995 she was
docked at No.3 Dock of Malta dry docks. During the night of 3
February an explosion occurred in No.3 centre tank and nine
shipyard workers lost their lives.[1]
The vessel suffered structural deformation and, following
inspection and survey, was considered a total write-off. She
occupied the dock in the harbor of Valletta for three years until
it was decided that the best option to utilize her remaining
value was to tow her to sea and scuttle her as an artificial reef
in 1998. |
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