There's a some story in my book about ships that I have since I was very young, it mentions 3 ships, but since their names are written in Russian how they are pronounced, I'm having a trouble finding the real ships.
The story is like this (translated from Russian):
"In 1974 in Mediterranean near Italy a chemical carrier Softat, that carried [some dangerous cargo in 900 barrels] collided with a merchant ship & sank.
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In 1977 a salvage operation was planned to lift those barrels. But it would have been impossible without a special salvage ship Kastoro - length 150m, width 30m. [describes the ship had diving equipment & also a 800t crane by which the barrels were lifted & loaded on a special cargo ship Orsa]."
Is anyone familiar with the above? I know I might have typed ship names wrong - it could be Kastoro or Castoro or Custoro or etc.