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  1. FSO Safer - Wikipedia

    • 15°07′09″N 42°35′40″E / 15.1192°N 42.5945°E FSO Safer (pronounced "saffer" /ˈsæfər/) is a floating oil storage and offloading vessel that is moored in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah. Prior to being emptied, the ship held more than 1.14 million barrels of oil. Its structure has been left exposed to humidity and corrosion with little … See more

    Class and typeULCC
    Tonnage406,640 DWT
    Length362 m (1,188 ft)
    Beam70 m (230 ft)
    History

    Safer was built in 1976 by the Hitachi Zosen Corporation in Japan as the oil tanker Esso Japan. As built, her gross tonnage was 192,679 and deadweight tonnage 406,640 tons. She measured 362 metres (1,188 ft) in length an… See more

    Abandonment

    In March 2015, in the early days of the Yemeni Civil War, Safer fell into the hands of Houthi forces when they took control of the coastline surrounding her mooring. In the following years, her structural condition deteriorate… See more

     
  1. Floating oil storage and offloading vessel

    FSO Safer (pronounced "saffer" / ˈsæfər /) is a floating oil storage and offloading vessel that is moored in the Red Sea north of the Yemeni city of Al Hudaydah. Prior to being emptied, the ship held more than 1.14 million barrels of oil.
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    The FSO Safer supertanker, moored nine kilometres off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea, is a storage vessel that was carrying an estimated 1.14 million barrels of light crude. The ship is 47 years old.

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