The Torrey Canyon
Lift-Off - Track 5
Date - March 1967
On the morning of the 18th of March 1967 the 974ft Torry canyon, a supertanker carrying 120,000 tons of crude oil hit Pollard's Rock in the Seven Stones reef between Land's End and the Scilly Isles. It sat there leaking oil for 11 days while unscucsessful bids to refloat or salvage the vessel were carried out before begining to break up.
The Royal Navy and RAF Dopped 62,000lbs of bombs, 5,200 gallons of petrol, 11 rockets and copious amounts of napalm during more than a day of bombing in an attempt to sink the tanker and burn off the oil. Somehow they managed to miss this stationary target with 25% of the ordinance and failed to either sink or burn off the oil.
Blaster was asked how he would do the job. He recomended the use of large quantities of explosives in the tanks to breakup the ship and vaporise the oil and thermalight and magnesium to ignight it but didnt get to go and do the job.
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