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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. Juli 2001 / Time Line July 14, 2001
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U.S. military officials are investigating the cause of a weekend
engine room fire aboard the Staff Sgt. Edward A. Carter Jr.,
formerly the 4,614-teu Sea-land Oregon, berthed at the Military
Traffic Management Command's (MTMC) terminal in Sunny Point, N.C.
The fierce fire killed one civilian mariner. Another man was listed
missing. The 1985-built vessel is managed by Maersk Line of
Norfolk, Va. and operated by the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift
Command. The fire started about 4 p.m. July 14 and was extinguished
about six hours later, MTMC officials said. The vessel, which
arrived at Sunny Point on June 14 to load explosives, was due to
depart for Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean on July 27. The
950-foot vessel is part of Maritime Prepositioning Ship Squadron
Two and has a crew of 40 U.S. civilian merchant mariners. While the
vessel was not being loaded at the time of the fire, it carried
about 1,232 ammunition containers onboard, or the equivalent of 5
million net explosive weight of assorted munitions and missiles.
Sunny Point is the U.S. military's largest ocean terminal dedicated
to handling explosive shipments. It was built with a large
undeveloped buffer zone and huge sand berms for safety, skriver THE
WEEKLY UNION NEWSPAPER OF THE SEA MARINE ELECTRONICS DIVISION -
ILA, AFL-CIO, 07/22/2001.
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