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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Seventeen seamen dead and 22 missing presumed dead after collision of tankers Esso Greensboro and Esso Suez in Gulf of Mexico, setting both ablaze in heavy fog. Worst U.S. coastal disaster since 1943.
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NEW ORLEANS, (AP)--Seventeen seamen were known dead and 22 others were missing and presumed dead in the collision of two tankers that set both ablaze in the Gulf of Mexico.
Marine records indicate it is the greatest disaster off the U. S. coast since 84 lives were lost in the collision of an American tanker and freighter off the Atlantic coast on June 6. 1943.
In Friday's pre-dawn collision during heavy fog, the 10,000-ton Esso Greensboro and the 26.500-ton super tanker Esso Suez crashed, exploded and burst into flames.
Only one man among the 44 man crew of the Esso Suez was killed in the collision but another. unidentified. died of burns. Three other men on the Suez were burned. All the other dead were aboard the flaming Greensboro carrying 42 men. The bodies of 15 men from the Greensboro were recovered and five survivors were picked up.
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Gulf Of Mexico
Event Date
Friday
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17 dead (15 bodies recovered from esso greensboro, 1 killed and 1 from burns on esso suez), 22 missing presumed dead, 3 burned on esso suez, 5 survivors from esso greensboro
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Two tankers, the 10,000-ton Esso Greensboro and the 26,500-ton Esso Suez, collided in heavy fog pre-dawn Friday, exploded, and burst into flames. Esso Suez had 44-man crew with 1 killed in collision, 1 unidentified died of burns, 3 burned. Esso Greensboro had 42 men, all other dead aboard it.