MV Prestige

History
Name:	Prestige
Owner:	Mare Shipping Inc.[1]
Port of registry:	Nassau, Bahamas[1]
Route:	Riga - Gibraltar - Singapore
Builder:	Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.[1]
Completed:	1976
Identification:	IMO number: 7372141[1] ABS number: 7603948[1]
Fate:	Sunk, 19 November 2002
General characteristics
Class & type:	Aframax single-hulled oil tanker
Tonnage:	42,820 tonnes (42,140 long tons; 47,200 short tons)[1]
Length:	243 m (797 ft)[1]
Beam:	34.4 m (113 ft)[1]
Draft:	14 m (46 ft)[1]
Depth:	18.7 m (61 ft)[1]
Speed:	15.4 knots (28.5 km/h; 17.7 mph)[1]
Crew:	27

MV Prestige was a Liberian-owned oil tanker, operating under a Bahamian flag, that on 19 November 2002 sank off the coast of Galicia, Spain. The sinking caused a major environmental disaster, polluting thousands of miles of coastline with 50,000 tonnes of oil.^[2]

Design and construction

Prestige was a single-hulled oil tanker with a length overall of 243 metres (797 ft), a beam of 34.4 metres (113 ft), a hull depth of 18.7 metres (61 ft), and a draft of 14 metres (46 ft). It had a 42,820 gross tonnage (GT) and a total cargo capacity of 81,589 tonnes deadweight (DWT). Vessels of this size are classified as Aframax-class tankers.

The ship was built by Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan.

Ship Information

• Owner: Mare Shipping Inc., Liberia
• Cargo Owner: Crown Resources, Switzerland
• P&I Coverage: London Steamship Owners Insurance

See also

• Prestige oil spill
• Plataforma Nunca Máis

References

1. "Case Study XII: Prestige" (PDF). Ship Structure Committee: 8.
2. "Spain Prestige oil spill disaster case in court". BBC News. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 2016-02-04.

External links

• Prestige at the Ministry of the Sea (Xunta de Galicia)
• The Prestige: one year on, a continuing disaster a report by the World Wide Fund for Nature

Coordinates: 42°53′N 9°53′W / 42.883°N 9.883°W