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SEISTAN (1957)
Service dates: 1957-1958
Official number: 187620
Shipping lines: STRICK LINE
Ship type:
General Cargo Ship.
Career
- 15.05.1957
- Launched.
- 27.07.1957
- Ran trials.
- 29.07.1957
- Completed as Seistan for Strick Line Ltd.
- 17.02.1958
- Fire broke out in No.5 hold beneath the explosives magazine whilst on a voyage from London to Khorramshahr with general cargo which included 170 tons of explosives, fuses and detonators.
- 18.02.1958
- Anchored about 3.5km (2 miles) east of South Sitra Beacon, Bahrein, where about 75 tons of explosives were discharged into a barge whist attempts to extinguish the fire continued.
- 19.02.1958
- Fire spread to the magazine and the subsequent explosion destroyed the after part of the vessel and much of the superstructure. As a result of the explosion, 53 members of the crew, including the master, and four men in a tug alongside lost their lives and the forepart finally sank.
- 05.02.1959
- After being raised the forepart left Bahrein in tow of the Dutch tug Rode Zee bound for Italy.
- 22.06.1959
- Arrived at Palermo en route to Catania where the forepart was broken up.