MV Kurdistan was a 182-metre (597-foot) oil tanker built by Swan Hunter (Shipbuilders) Ltd. at the Hebburn Shipyard Tyne and Wear as the Frank D. Moores in June, 1973, renamed Kurdistan in 1976 and at the time of the accident was owned by the Nile Steamship Company Ltd.She was a Liberian-registered tanker which broke in two spilling some 6,000 tons of Bunker c oil in the Cabot Strait off the coast of Cape Breton Nova Scotia Canada on 15 March 1979.The amount of oil spilled is second only to the SS Arrow spill off Canada's East Coast.
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