High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier (VLCC), owned by Amoco, that ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 5 km (3.1 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date.En route from the Persian Gulf to Rotterdam, Netherlands, via a scheduled stop at Lyme Bay, Great Britain, the ship encountered stormy weather with gale conditions and high seas while in the English Channel. At around 09:45 a.m., a heavy wave hit the ship's rudder and it was found that she was no longer responding to the helm.

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