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Vietnamwar, "Amastra" mined, with landingcraft
picture by Mike Jackson, Radio Officer of "Amastra"
Vietnam, Nha Trang bay, POL station.
the morning after
a US landingcraft and a US light amphibious reconnaissance craft (LARC) are alongside.
From US Navy archives the following story was extracted:
quote
At 0010h, on April 12, 1967, the privately chartered 9,000 ton British flagged Shell Oil tanker M/V AMASTRA had been holed by an external explosive device.
The explosion ripped open a four by six foot jagged hole at the waterline near the fire wall between the engine room and the boiler room.
The engine room, fire room and the after pump room flooded in twenty minutes causing the AMASTRA’s stern to settle to the harbor bottom.
unquote
Vietnamwar, "Amastra" mined, with landingcraft
picture by Mike Jackson, Radio Officer of "Amastra"
Vietnam, Nha Trang bay, POL station.
the morning after
a US landingcraft and a US light amphibious reconnaissance craft (LARC) are alongside.
From US Navy archives the following story was extracted:
quote
At 0010h, on April 12, 1967, the privately chartered 9,000 ton British flagged Shell Oil tanker M/V AMASTRA had been holed by an external explosive device.
The explosion ripped open a four by six foot jagged hole at the waterline near the fire wall between the engine room and the boiler room.
The engine room, fire room and the after pump room flooded in twenty minutes causing the AMASTRA’s stern to settle to the harbor bottom.
unquote