MV ''Spartan Lady''

MV Spartan Lady was a 581 feet (177 m)[1] oil tanker that sank in 1975. Flagged in Liberia, she was at the time of her loss owned by Compania Marittma Laconia and operated by Sea Spartan Steamship Agency.[1]

On April 4, 1975, Spartan Lady was sailing through heavy seas about 150 miles (240 km) south of Martha's Vineyard[2] when she sent a distress call at about 0810 local time.[1] The United States Coast Guard dispatched four helicopters that arrived about two hours later, by which time the vessel had split in two.[1] The Coast Guard airlifted all 36 crew members from the ship, though one subsequently died en route to shore.[1] The survivors were flown to Coast Guard facilities on Governor's Island in New York and in Hyannis, Massachusetts.[1] Spartan Lady's cargo of 500,000 gallons of oil was spilled into the ocean, though it was driven away from the coastline.[1] It took several days for the wreckage of the ship to sink, and the Coast Guard eventually had to sink the bow section with gunfire.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "One Dead, 35 Rescued as Tanker Splits in Heavy Seas". The New York Times. April 5, 1975. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Quinn, William (1979). Shipwrecks Around New England. Orleans, MA: The Lower Cape Publishing Company. p. 194. ISBN 0-936972-05-X.
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