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had been retrofitted with such an installation. However, the normal docking time had not been enough to complete 100% of the work related to the crude oil tanks. This completion was done at sea, the ship being kept gas free during her ballast passage to
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loaded passage back to Europe, and the commissioning of the new IG System was to be done after completion of the gas freeing operation during which the explosion occurred.
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was insured for $ 24,000,000. At the time of her sinking she was the largest ship ever lost at sea. This record was surpassed in 1976 by the loss of the
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