* by type: cargo 1, passenger / cargo 2, petroleum tanker 2, roll on / roll off 1

* 1991 – Italian ferry Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy killing 140.

bulk 22, cargo 5, chemical tanker 31, container 2, liquefied gas 1, petroleum tanker 21, refrigerated cargo 35, roll on / roll off 5, specialized tanker 1

barge carrier 3, bulk 313, cargo 89, chemical tanker 167, combination bulk 16, combination ore / oil 32, container 318, liquefied gas 99, multi-functional large-load carrier 4, passenger 23, petroleum tanker 302, refrigerated cargo 69, roll on / roll off 20, short-sea passenger 3, specialized tanker 13, vehicle carrier 42

Cargo 25, Combination bulk 8, Petroleum tanker 2, Railcar carrier 1, Refrigerated cargo 6, Roll on / roll off 2, Short-sea passenger 3.

bulk 6, cargo 3, chemical tanker 15, container 4, liquefied gas 1, passenger 3, petroleum tanker 3, roll on / roll off 9

* Limburg ( tanker ), a French oil tanker bombed off Yemen

by type: bulk 59, cargo 100, chemical tanker 38, container 66, liquefied gas 25, livestock carrier 1, passenger 2, petroleum tanker 56, roll on / roll off 5, vehicle carrier 8

: bulk 440, cargo 334, chemical tanker 54, combination bulk 10, combination ore / oil 12, container 75, liquefied gas 4, livestock carrier 3, multi-functional large-load carrier 1, passenger 6, passenger / cargo 1, petroleum tanker 270, refrigerated cargo 39, roll on / roll off 45, short-sea passenger 9, specialised tanker 3, vehicle carrier 17

bulk 86, cargo 18, chemical tanker 31, combination bulk 4, combination ore / oil 7, container 69, liquified gas 8, multi-functional large load carrier 1, passenger 6, petroleum tanker 106, roll on / roll off 1, short-sea passenger 1, vehicle carrier 1 ( 2002 est.

* 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons ( 76, 000 m³ ) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

* 2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.

* 2002 – The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

The attack was a response to Iran's missile attack three days earlier on the MV Sea Isle City, a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait.

International catastrophes such as the wreck of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in 1978 and the Bhopal disaster in 1984 have demonstrated the universality of such events and the scale on which efforts to address them needed to engage.

* March 17 – The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground on the coast of Brittany.

* April 11 – The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.

** The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast, causing a huge oil spill.

In 1967, the oil tanker Torrey Canyon went aground off the southwest coast of England, and in 1969 oil spilled from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel.

Today, Fairchild ’ s aircraft and personnel make up the backbone of the Air Force ’ s tanker fleet on the west coast.

The government handling of the wreckage of the Greek Prestige tanker near the Spanish coast, which resulted in a major ecological disaster, also became a divisive issue.

Fraga saw his credibility damaged in late 2002, when the oil tanker ship Prestige sank off the Galician coast causing a massive oil spill that affected the shoreline in the northwest of the region.

Its journey continued up within range of the South American coast to its rendezvous with a tanker.

In March 1978, a U. S. oil tanker, Amoco Cadiz, ran aground at Portsall about from the island, leading to major pollution of the Brittany coast.

In his new role, he faced two very difficult times of Aznar's second term: the Prestige oil tanker disaster off the coast of Galicia, and the participation of Spain in the Iraq War desired by George W. Bush.

For example, SS San Pasqual, a former oil tanker, lies off the coast of Cayo Las Brujas, Cuba, where it served as a hotel, then as a base for divers.

* Odyssey ( tanker ), an oil tanker responsible for an oil spill off the coast of Nova Scotia

The 1966 Palomares B-52 crash or Palomares incident occurred on 17 January 1966, when a B-52G bomber of the USAF Strategic Air Command collided with a KC-135 tanker during mid-air refuelling at over the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Spain.

* Jessica ( tanker ), oil tanker that spilled 568 tons of oil off the coast of the Galapagos Islands

In December 1999 the tanker MV Erika sank off the coast of Brittany, causing a major oil spill.

Marine pollution made further international headlines after the 1967 crash of the oil tanker Torrey Canyon, and after the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill off the coast of California.

The news of the bombing raid was reported on the BBC World Service before either the Vulcan or the last tanker arrived at Ascension.

On 12 August 2009, UPI reported that Saudi Arabia was seeking upgrades for their E-3 fleet and aerial refuelling tanker aircraft.

The California Highway Patrol ( CHP ) initially reported that they suspected that the tanker had been speeding and bounced off a guard rail, leading to the overturn.

The Spokane Daily Chronicle reported that the tanker observed a flash of light approximately west of Guam, followed immediately by two falling red lights falling to the ocean at different speeds.

The next morning, the fire is burning out of control and it is reported that the tanker was hit by a lightning bolt.

At 19: 50, the tanker SS Gaines Mills reported seeing a mid-air explosion, then flames leaping 100 feet ( 30 m ) high and burning on the sea for 10 minutes.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

The Bantry terminal was devastated by the explosion of a Total tanker, the Betelgeuse, in January 1979 ( the Betelgeuse incident ) and it was never fully reopened.

During the escape, the Starman crashes the car into a gas tanker and uses a sphere to protect the two of them from the explosion.

* January 8-Fifty are killed when an explosion destroys the French oil tanker Betelgeuse off Whiddy Island.

A fuel tanker in a military convoy exploded inside ( the cause of the explosion remains somewhat in doubt with the Russians still claiming it was an accident and the Mujahideen still claiming it was a successful attack ) the Salang Tunnel, unleashing a chain reaction of fiery explosions and death.

* July 16-A suicide bomber detonates explosives near an LPG ( propane ) fuel tanker parked near a gas station south of Baghdad, sparking a massive explosion that kills more than 60 people and wounds as many as 100 in one of the worst insurgent attacks to hit the area since the US occupation of Iraq.

* Roadway to Bay Bridge collapses after tanker explosion With photographs of 2007 collapse, SFGATE

A civilian tanker observed what appeared to be an in-flight explosion believed to be the missing Super Constellation, though no trace of wreckage or debris was ever recovered.