Talk:Torrey Canyon oil spill

Torrey Canyon
The ship is only notable for one event. The pages should be merged. QuentinUK (talk) 15:05, 16 January 2012 (UTC)


 * See Category:Oil_tankers. Blackberry  Sorbet  10:52, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

The event was hugely notable and remains significant for environmental legislation and marine ecology today. It may be fine to merge the ship and the ship's oil spill articles, but these should not be merged into some umbrella article on all ships or all wrecks or all tankers or whatever. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Photo needed
What I came here for was an image; was surprised to find none. A free one would be ideal but given the massive event a non-free image with NFUR would seem entirely appropriate. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:13, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Murphy's Law
The joke about Murphy's Law was just the funniest thing ever. I like reading encyclopedias because of all the funny jokes. --jiHymas — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.70.149.103 (talk) 03:08, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

HMG and Petroleum Jelly
"[...] as well as more RAF Hunters with liquefied petroleum jelly (not napalm, as HMG denied that the UK forces had stocks of napalm) to ignite the oil." Who or what on earth is HMG? How is the section in brackets even relevant? If liquefied petroleum jelly was used that's what was used.

This needs removing or rewriting. It reads like a conspiracist has decided to do randomly edit an article. I will return in a day or two and if not fixed I will remove "not napalm as HMG denied that the UK forces had stocks of napalm"

46.208.249.136 (talk) 06:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Removed as per above. Napalm is not petroleum jelly. Who are HMG? The BBC article mentions napalm being used but this is not what the article said. Futures,yeah? (talk) 20:14, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


 * HMG is "Her Majesty's Government". GraemeLeggett (talk) 22:22, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Oil Spill
The section on the oil spill mentions the vessel lacking charts of the Canary Islands - should this not be charts of the Scilly Isles? The ship had left the Canaries some 4 days earlier - how would charts of the Canary Islands have helped them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.97.41.12 (talk) 17:35, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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Note remark about l-scale charts
Most of us don't know what these are. Clarification is needed.