Tanker split open in collision
NZPA-Reuter Stavanger, Norway Fire broke out yesterday aboard a Greek supertanker after a collision with a Dutch trawler, but the flames were brought under control and 25 seamen rescued, said a Norwegian sea rescue spokesman. Crude oil from the tanker was still pouring into the sea, he said. The spokesman, in Star vanger, a North Sea port, told Reuters that four men had been taken aboard a British oil platform and 21 had been
picked up by a ship. Five people were believed to be still aboard the burning tanker. The 76,000-ton Greekregistered Orleans suffered a ruptured side tank in the collision with the 295-ton Dutch fishing vessel, the spokesman said. In the British port of Cromer, rescue officials said three men were unaccounted for. The Norwegian spokesman said the collision took place in the British sector of the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, England.
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