Sentences with phrase «oriental nicety»

And in 2011, by now known as the Oriental Nicety, she was sold for $ 16 million to an Indian demolition company, Priya Blue Industries.

Activists claimed that the Oriental Nicety, too, was contaminated with asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls, a persistent organic pollutant.

So the Oriental Nicety sat on death row for two months, costing her owner $ 10 million as the value of its steel declined and the company continued to pay its crew.

The Oriental Nicety (née Exxon Valdez), born in 1986 in San Diego, has died after a long struggle with bad publicity