MS Oliva

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title: "MS Oliva" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bulk-carriers", "ships-built-in-china", "shipwrecks-in-the-atlantic-ocean", "history-of-tristan-da-cunha", "oil-spills-in-africa", "2009-ships", "ships-of-malta", "march-2011-in-africa"] description: "Bulk carrier built in 2009" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Oliva" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Bulk carrier built in 2009 ::

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Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
name	Oliva
owner	Dryships Inc
operator	TMS Bulkers
registry	Valletta, Malta
builder	Hudong Zhonghua, Shanghai
launched	24 June 2009
completed	2009
identification	*Call sign: 9HA2075
fate	Wrecked 16 March 2011
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	Dry bulk carrier
tonnage	;
length	225 m
beam	32.26 m
depth	19.6 m
propulsion	1 screw, MAN B&W engine
speed	14 knots
crew	22
notes
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| fate = Wrecked 16 March 2011 | notes =

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The '*MS *Oliva''''' was a bulk carrier launched in 2009. On 16 March 2011, due to the risky navigation of trying to achieve the minimal allowed clearance of Nightingale Island of 10 nmi, and due to human error in navigation reducing the actual clearance to zero, the ship went aground off Nightingale Island, Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, at 4 am while on a voyage from Santos, Brazil to China with a cargo of soya beans.

The ship broke in two and was a total loss. All 22 crew were rescued. More than 800 tons of fuel oil leaked from the ship and coated some 20,000 northern rockhopper penguins. The remains of the ship have been left to be claimed by the ocean. There is an area of soya bean deposits and reduced sealife around the wreck due to the cargo of soya bean removing the oxygen from the water.

Lifeboat

In February 2013, a lifeboat from the Oliva washed up on a beach in the Coorong National Park in south-east South Australia. The lifeboat was later put on display adjacent to the former Cape Jaffa lighthouse in Kingston SE, South Australia, where it forms part of the town's National Trust maritime display.[[File:MS Olivia lifeboat plaque.jpg|thumb|Plaque in front of the lifeboat for MS Oliva which is now located adjacent to the former Cape Jaffa lighthouse in Kingston SE, South Australia.]]

References

References

1. (2011). "Ship data from Clarkson Research Services Ltd". TradeWinds.
2. (2011). "Form 20-F for the year to December 31, 2010". Dryships Inc.
3. (22 March 2011). "Oil Spill in South Atlantic Threatens Endangered Penguins". New York Times.
4. [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-06/shipwreck-lifeboat-washes-up-in-australia/4503618 Shipwreck lifeboat washes up in Australia], [[ABC News Online]], 6 February 2013
5. (2013-07-09). "Lifeboat's new home".
6. "On Deck - Lifeboat to stay in Kingston SE".

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