Um El Faroud
Libyan owned tanker scuttled as dive site off Malta / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Um El Faroud was a 5,390 DWT Libyan-owned single screw motor tanker. Following a gas explosion during maintenance work on 3 February 1995, she was scuttled off the coast of Malta as an artificial reef and diving attraction.
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Wreck of Um El Faroud | |
History | |
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Libya | |
Owner | General National Maritime Transport Company |
Builder | Smiths Dock Company |
Launched | 31 May 1969 |
Identification | IMO number: 6918613 |
Fate | scuttled as an artificial reef |
General characteristics | |
Type | Motor tanker |
Tonnage | |
Length | 115 m (377 ft) |
Beam | 15.5 m (51 ft) |
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