Word: tanker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iraqi warplanes firing antiship Exocet missiles set a Cypriot tanker ablaze in Iranian waters, one day after an Iraqi air attack on a shrimp trawler killed its Australian skipper...
Iran, which retaliates for Iraqi strikes on its tanker routes on a ship-for-ship basis, sent a frigate to raid the Indian tanker Spic Emerald in the southern gulf. The vessel was carrying a Yugoslav-bound shipment of volatile petrochemical called ethylene dichloride, or EDC, loaded at Saudi Arabian ports...
...member all-Indian crew were safe except for breathing problems when smoke covered the tanker during a 30-minute fire on the bridge...
Iraqi warplanes fire Exocets from a considerable distance, which means the missiles can mistake any vessel in Iranian waters for an Iranian tanker. The Baghdad government has pledged to impede its foe's oil exports...
...missile frigate Hawes provided escort for the lone tanker in the convoy, the 46,723-ton Gas Prince, a liquefied gas carrier...