MV Argo Merchant, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 18 relations: Boston, Direction finding, Fishery, Fuel oil, Germany, Gyrocompass, Hamburg, Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, List of oil spills, Massachusetts, Monrovia, Nantucket, Nantucket Shoals, Oil spill, Oil tanker, Puerto La Cruz, The Book of Heroic Failures, Venezuela.

2. 1976 in Massachusetts
3. Maritime incidents in 1976
4. Oil spills in the United States

Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Direction finding

Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), is the use of radio waves to determine the direction to a radio source.

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Fishery

Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds).

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Fuel oil

Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil).

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gyrocompass

A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and the rotation of the Earth (or another planetary body if used elsewhere in the universe) to find geographical direction automatically.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft

Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (often abbreviated HDW) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Kiel.

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List of oil spills

This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Monrovia

Monrovia is the capital and largest city of Liberia.

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Nantucket

Nantucket is an island about south from Cape Cod.

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Nantucket Shoals

Nantucket Shoals is an area of dangerously shallow water in the Atlantic Ocean that extends from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, eastward for and southeastward for; in places water depth can be as shallow as.

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Oil spill

An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.

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Oil tanker

An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. MV Argo Merchant and oil tanker are oil tankers.

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Puerto La Cruz

Puerto La Cruz is a port city located in Anzoátegui State, in Venezuela.

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The Book of Heroic Failures

The Book of Heroic Failures, written by Stephen Pile in 1979, is a book written in celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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See also

1976 in Massachusetts

• 1975–1976 Massachusetts legislature
• Disappearance of Andy Puglisi
• MV Argo Merchant
• Mashpee Nine: A Story of Cultural Justice

Maritime incidents in 1976

• British Steel (yacht)
• Byford Dolphin
• Cod Wars
• German submarine tender Saar
• German trawler V 108 Porjus
• HMS Eastbourne (F73)
• HMS Fittleton
• HMS Wrangler (R48)
• HMS Yarmouth (F101)
• Kirk Pride
• List of shipwrecks in 1976
• MV Argo Merchant
• MV Christmas Seal
• MV Clary (1939)
• MV George Prince ferry disaster
• MV Gullfoss
• MV Mi Amigo
• MV Musthika Kencana II
• Morning Cloud
• NEPCO 140 oil spill
• ORP Ślązak (L26)
• SS Dwight L. Moody
• SS Frosta
• SS George Dewey
• SS Grand Zenith
• SS King Orry (1946)
• SS Sansinena
• SS Sylvania
• USS Arapaho (ATF-68)
• USS Caiman
• USS Chopper
• USS George K. MacKenzie
• USS Magnet (YDG-9)
• USS Otterstetter
• USS Tigrone
• USS Voge

Oil spills in the United States

• 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill
• 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill
• 1989 Narragansett Bay oil spill
• 2010 Port Arthur oil spill
• 2013 Magnolia Refinery oil spill
• 2013 Mayflower oil spill
• 2015 Mount Carbon train derailment
• 2016 Colonial Pipeline leak
• 2020 Colonial Pipeline oil spill
• 2021 Orange County oil spill
• 2022 Keystone Pipeline oil spill
• Amazon Venture oil spill
• Ashland oil spill
• Blue Magpie (ship)
• Bouchard Oil Spill
• Burmah Agate
• CITGO Asphalt Refining Co. v. Frescati Shipping Co.
• Cosco Busan oil spill
• Deepwater Horizon oil spill
• Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field
• Exxon Valdez oil spill
• Federal On Scene Coordinator
• Greenpoint oil spill
• Julie N. oil spill
• Kalamazoo River oil spill
• Lakeview Gusher
• Line 3 oil spill
• MV Argo Merchant
• MV Spartan Lady
• Mississippi River oil spill (1962–63)
• Morris J. Berman oil spill
• Murphy Oil USA refinery spill
• NEPCO 140 oil spill
• New Carissa
• North Cape oil spill
• Ohmsett
• Oil spill governance in the United States
• Prudhoe Bay oil spill
• Red Butte Creek oil spill
• Refugio oil spill
• SS Esso Brussels
• SS Puerto Rican
• Taylor Energy oil spill
• Wild Mary Sudik

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Argo_Merchant

Also known as Argo Merchant, IMO 5022522.