MS Oliva

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American Bureau of Shipping

IMO no. 9413705

The Oliva was a traveling under the Maltese flag bulk carrier, the front of the Nightingale Iceland ran in March 2011 due and broke.

Particulars of ship

The Oliva was built by the Chinese Hudong - Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group in 2009. The keel of the vessel took place on 24 June 2009 on April 8, the launching. The delivery to the shipowner, Monteagle Shipping SA, took place on August 17, 2009. Farms was the ship of the Greek company TMS Bulkers Ltd.

The ship was powered by a built in China under license MAN B & W marine diesel engine. It had six holds.

Ship accident in March 2011

The ship was launched on 16 March 2011 around 4:30 clock on the cliffs of Nightingale Iceland, an island in the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha group, on the basis. On board the ship, which had loaded in Santos, Brazil, soybeans for Singapore, were at this time 22 crew members, a Greek captain and 21 Filipino seafarers.

A fishing vessel that was in the vicinity, took 12 crew members and initially remained in the vicinity of the damaged vessel to intervene in an emergency. As the weather worsened, it was decided abzubergen the remaining ten crew members. This happened on March 17 with the help of inflatable boats of the now arrived at the crash site cruise ship Prince Albert II, the recovered crew members were also brought on board the fishing vessel. 15 of the crew members were then brought to Tristan da Cunha, other seafarers remain on board the fishing vessel and returned to the scene of the accident.

The ship broke in the night from 17 to 18 March 2011. Here, about 800 tonnes of fuel oil were released, the important breeding grounds for various endangered species of the archipelago, as were, among others, were several colonies of rockhopper penguins affected by the oil.

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