A recent article in a UK shipping magazine on oil tanker fires and losses reminded me that I had taken a photograph of the burnt-out oil tanker PACIFIC GLORY in Hong Kong in June 1972.
It had been in a collision with another oil tanker in the English Channel resulting in subsequent fires and loss of life. The burnt-out hull was towed from the Isle of Wight, UK. to Hong Kong.
Presumably with the intention of rebuilding its engine room and superstructure as this was the period of the first Middle East “oil crisis” and tankers were in short supply and hence very valuable.
It was anchored off Tsing Yi Island when photographed.
Date picture taken
1972