Vic Young describes how the British cargo vessel Royston Grange was engulfed by afire storm when in collision with a laden tanker whilst under way close to the Argentine coast on foggy night in May 1972. In dense fog just before dawn on 11 May 1972, the British cargo liner Royston Grange was engulfed in a deadly fire storm when she was in collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tien Chee. Both ships were under way near Buoy No. 15 in the River Plate's Indio Channel, 40 miles south-west of Montevideo and nine miles off the Argentine coast.
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