DIVERS CHECK HULL OF LNG TANKER RAMMED BY U.S. SUBMARINE

DIVERS CHECK HULL OF LNG TANKER RAMMED BY U.S. SUBMARINE    LNG carrier 'Norman Lady' was anchored at Gibraltar Friday while divers checked damage to the ship’s hull following a collision with a U.S. submarine, said Thor Jorgen Guttormsen, president of Leif Hoegh & Co. of Oslo, the vessel's owner.
   Seawater had breached the ship’s double-bottom dry tank area, Guttormsen said, but no oil leak occurred.
   A legal representative of the shipowner told Shippers NewsWire the vessel had been sailing empty in ballast.
   The U.S. Navy said the 'USS Oklahoma City,' a nuclear-powered attack submarine, had struck a ship on Nov. 13 as it reached periscope depth in waters off Gibraltar.
      Leif Hoegh said the next day that the 'Norman Lady' had been hit by a “submerged object” in the Strait of Gibraltar, which the Navy subsequently said was the 'Oklahoma City.'