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The Shell tanker SS Hemitochus had a good one in 77 after she left the Black Sea. Over 100 tubes burnt out which were repaired at sea. She lumped back on auxillary boiler. It was 12 noon as she passed GiB and blew the tubes and just about blacked outside the Gib Strait I've read since that same ship had a very similar fire alongside Singapore a few years previous. A few months later the good old rust bucket 'Trochus' as she was affectionately called crossed the bar in Kaochiung Taiwan after a Far East Hongkong, Bangkok, Singapore luboil run. RIP 'Trochus'
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