Name Prestige Length 243 m | Owner Mare Shipping Inc. Completed 1976 Builder Hitachi Zosen Corporation | |
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Identification IMO number 7372141ABS number 7603948 | ||
MV Prestige was a Liberian-owned oil tanker, operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast of Galicia, Spain. The sinking caused a major environmental disaster, polluting thousands of miles of coastline with 50,000 tonnes of oil.
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Design and construction
Prestige was a single-hulled oil tanker with a length overall of 243 metres (797 ft), a beam of 34.4 metres (113 ft), a hull depth of 18.7 metres (61 ft), and a draft of 14 metres (46 ft). It had a 42,820 gross tonnage (GT) and a total cargo capacity of 81,589 tonnes deadweight (DWT). Vessels of this size are classified as Aframax-class tankers.
The ship was built by Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan.
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