MV Sea Empress
（重定向自Sea Empress）
![The location where the Sea Empress ran aground.](/Images/godic/202502/09/Pembrokeshire_UK_location_map.svg2209.png")
The MV Sea Empress was a single-hull oil tanker that ran aground near the southwest coast of Wales in February 1996. The ensuing oil spill, Britain's third largest oil spillage and the twelfth largest in the world at the time, devastated a considerable area of local coastline and killed many birds, and continued to affect the Pembrokeshire coast for years afterwards.