The MS Berge Vanga was an ore-bulk-oil carrier with 227,912 metric tons deadweight (DWT). The ship was owned by Norwegian shipping company Sig. Bergesen d.y. and registered in Liberia. The ship had build number 300 at the Uljanik shipyard in the port city Pula in Croatia where it was built in 1974. The ship was on route from Brazil to Japan with iron ore when contact was lost with the vessel in the South Atlantic in November 1979.

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  • The MS Berge Vanga was an ore-bulk-oil carrier with 227,912 metric tons deadweight (DWT). The ship was owned by Norwegian shipping company Sig. Bergesen d.y. and registered in Liberia. The ship had build number 300 at the Uljanik shipyard in the port city Pula in Croatia where it was built in 1974. The ship was on route from Brazil to Japan with iron ore when contact was lost with the vessel in the South Atlantic in November 1979. The ship vanished and the ensuing search operation yielded no results. 40 people lost their lives. Some debris that could resemble parts from the tanker was found but no people. Still very little is known about the disaster, and the hearing after the accident was held behind closed doors. The principal theory holds that the cause could have been explosions caused by oil residue in the cargo compartments. MS Berge Vanga was, like its sister ship MS Berge Istra which disappeared under similar circumstances four years earlier, a ship which could transport both oil and iron ore. After these two disappearances no more combination ships like this were built, and oil was never again transported alongside ore.
  • Berge Vanga var et OBO-skip eid av rederiet Sig. Bergesen d.y. Skipet var registrert i Liberia, var bygget i 1974 ved Uljanik skipsverft, Pula i Kroatia, som byggenummer 300. OBO er en engelskspråklig forkortelse for Oil-Bulk-Ore; olje-bulk-malm. Undervegs fra Brasil til Japan med jernmalm mistet man i november 1979 kontakten med skipet, som da befant seg i det sørlige Atlanterhavet. En større leteaksjonen ga ingen resultater. 40 mann mistet livet, av disse ni nordmenn. Noen vrakrester som kunne ligne deler av skipet ble funnet, men ingen mennesker. Den dag i dag er fremdeles lite omkring ulykken kjent, og en sjøforklaring ble foretatt for lukkede dører. Den fremste teorien går ut på at oljerester i lasterom forårsaket eksplosjoner. Søsterskipet Berge Istra forsvant fire år tidligere på samme måten. Etter disse to forsvinningene ble det ikke bygget flere OBO-skip.
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  • The MS Berge Vanga was an ore-bulk-oil carrier with 227,912 metric tons deadweight (DWT). The ship was owned by Norwegian shipping company Sig. Bergesen d.y. and registered in Liberia. The ship had build number 300 at the Uljanik shipyard in the port city Pula in Croatia where it was built in 1974. The ship was on route from Brazil to Japan with iron ore when contact was lost with the vessel in the South Atlantic in November 1979.
  • Berge Vanga var et OBO-skip eid av rederiet Sig. Bergesen d.y. Skipet var registrert i Liberia, var bygget i 1974 ved Uljanik skipsverft, Pula i Kroatia, som byggenummer 300. OBO er en engelskspråklig forkortelse for Oil-Bulk-Ore; olje-bulk-malm. Undervegs fra Brasil til Japan med jernmalm mistet man i november 1979 kontakten med skipet, som da befant seg i det sørlige Atlanterhavet. En større leteaksjonen ga ingen resultater. 40 mann mistet livet, av disse ni nordmenn.
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