SS Golar Patricia was an oil tanker built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries of Sakaide in Japan for Gotaas-Larsen Shipping Company and launched in 1969.

In November 1973 Golar Patricia was steaming in ballast from Coryton Refinery on the Thames Estuary in England to Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.

[1] On 5 November she was in the North Atlantic about 130 miles (210 kilometres) off the Canary Islands when she suffered three large explosions, caught fire and broke in two.

During the previous docking at AFO Shipyard in Brest, France, a few weeks before, Golar Patricia had been retrofitted with such an installation.

No work had been done during the loaded passage back to Europe, and the commissioning of the new IG System was to be done after completion of the gas freeing operation during which the explosion occurred.