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Stranded tanker

Week number 67-34

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

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The British tanker British Lantern is stranded at the sandbar of Everinge in the Western Scheldt. After a failed attempt to set the tanker afloat with 16 tugboats, a part of the oil load is pumped over to lighters because there is a change the tanker will break. During the pumping the Belgian lighter Odila is stove in after an explosion and the ship is set aground. A large quantity of oil ends up in the water. During the next the they manage to set the tanker afloat.

Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Publication date:
1 August 1967
Length:
01:47

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User:
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
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