Bridgeton incident
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bridgeton-incident-204-7728297
title:
Bridgeton incident
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The Bridgeton incident was the mining of the supertanker SS Bridgeton by Iranian IRGC navy near Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf on July 24, 1987. The ship was sailing in the first convoy of Operation Earnest Will, the U.S. response to Kuwaiti requests to protect its tankers from attack amid the Iran–Iraq War. The explosion of an Iranian mine in the Gulf's shipping channel damaged Bridgeton's outer hull but did not prevent it from completing its voyage. Nevertheless, the incident was a propagand
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Maritime incident in the Persian Gulf in July 1987
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeton_incident
date created:
2015-12-26T15:51:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T21:17:53Z
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