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...Greenwich time on Jan. 17, crewmen aboard the tanker British Trident sighted a ship in distress off the coast of Senegal in northwest Africa. The Salem, a 214,000-ton supertanker, registered in Liberia, was listing and dead in the water. By radio contact with the tanker, Trident learned that a series of mysterious explosions was responsible for the disaster; indeed, a cloud of orange smoke billowed from the tanker's deck. By 11:30 the disabled ship's Greek-born captain, Dimitrios Georgoulis, and his 22 crewmen, most, of them Tunisians, had pulled away in two lifeboats...
...this just another maritime accident? After all, 1979 had been a graveyard year for cargo vessels. At least 279 ships sank, weighing 2.3 million tons in all-a 60% increase from the year before. Insurance experts at Lloyd's of London, now claim that the Salem was deliberately scuttled. If true, it would make for the biggest maritime swindle in history. Shell International Trading, which had purchased the 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil aboard the Salem, has filed the largest cargo claim ever received at Lloyd's: $56.3 million. Shell has also filed a suit against...
...vaguely Germanic accent-appeared in Piraeus, Greece, to hire a crew capable of working a supertanker. The load was to be 194,000 tons of Kuwaiti oil, to be delivered in Genoa to an independent Italian oil company, Pontoil. On Nov. 30, the ship-Soudan's Salem-sailed for Kuwait and picked up the crude. After four days at sea, however, the cargo was sold to Shell in a normal spot-market transaction. Shell kept Genoa as the point of delivery...
...been claimed that on or about Dec. 27 the Salem anchored offshore at Durban, South Africa's largest port. By then the crew had painted over the name Salem on the hull, making it read Lema-a simple three-letter switch. The vessel then slipped out of Durban around Jan. 2, Lloyd's believes, with its tanks full of sea water to simulate a full load. Two weeks later, when the ship was almost back on its original schedule, it sank off the Senegalese coast...
Record: 17-4-1 overall; 12-2-1 ECAC Division One. B.C. Opp. 4 Ohio State (OT) 5 8 Salem State 5 7 St. Anselms 3 5 at New Hampshire 3 4 Brown (OT) 4 8 at Clarkson 4 7 St. Lawrence 1 3 Maine 6 7 Princeton 5 7 Bowdoin 1 8 New Hampshire 5 3 at Michigan 7 5 at Michigan St. 3 6 at Harvard 2 6 at Cornell 5 4 Dartmouth 0 7 at B.U. (OT) 6 4 at Yale 2 4 Providence 1 8 RPI 4 5 at Dartmouth 6 6 Colgate...