Giuseppe Giuletti 
- Name
- Giuseppe Giuletti
- Accident date
- 01/04/1972
- Location
- Portugal
- Accident area
- Cape St. Vincent, Portugal
- Spill area
- Offshore
- Cause of spill
- Structural damage
- Quantity transported
- 15 506 tonnes of diesel and 3 225 tonnes of fuel oil
- Nature of pollutant
- diesel and fuel oil
- Ship / structure type
- Tanker
- Built date
- 1954
- Flag
- Italian
The tanker Giuseppe Giuletti was travelling from Sardinia to Lisbon when it was abandoned by its crew following the flooding of the machine room.
The 28 crew members were rescued by the motor boat Kathe Bros. The tanker sank off Cape St. Vincent a few hours later, spilling 26,000 tonnes of diesel and fuel oil into the sea.
Source:
- HOOKE, Norman, 1997, Maritime Casualties 1963-1996, second edition, LLP Limited, Londres