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MV Langeland

Norwegian cargo ship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6719724 ↗
Source-derived summary

MV Langeland was a Norwegian cargo ship. It was owned and operated by the Norwegian company Myklebusthaug Management AS based in Fonnes in Austrheim Municipality. It sank on July 31, 2009 in stormy weather south of the Koster Islands; no one from its 6-men crew survived.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “MV Langeland” is norwegian cargo ship. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Langeland, Norwegian and cargo, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Langeland, Norwegian and cargo is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6719724. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “MV Langeland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.