OMI Charger
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| Career (United States of America) |  |
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| Name: | OMI Charger |
| Operator: | OMI Corporation |
| Ordered: | December 15, 1969 |
| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
| Launched: | December 15, 1969 |
| Fate: | Sank in Galveston, Texas on October 9, 1993 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Steel hull oil tanker |
| Tonnage: | 34,485 metric tons of deadweight (DWT) |
| Length: | 631 ft 1 in (192.4 m) |
| Beam: | 90.1 ft (27.5 m) |
| Draught: | 48.9 ft (14.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | steam turbine 15,000 horse power |
The OMI Charger was a single-hulled oil tanker built in 1969 and used by the OMI Corporation.
[edit] Disaster
On October 9, 1993 while the tanker was anchored at Boliver Roads near Galveston, Texas, work began on sealing a previously discovered leak in a cargo tank. When a crew member lit an arc welder inside a tank, it ignited gasoline vapors, causing a tremendous explosion which killed three crew members and injured seven. The subsequent fire burned for five hours, and the ship was a total loss.
A US Coast Guard investigation determined that the cargo tank had been improperly cleared and insufficiently tested prior to the incident.[1]
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