Tanker reportedly attacked in Strait of Hormuz; Al Jazeera names it as Petro Dolphin

Disputed · Strait of Hormuz · 2026-10-12 15:19 UTC

UKMTO has issued a time-late warning of an attack on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, with the crew reported safe, and gives the incident date as 11 Oct 2026 with time TBC. Al Jazeera reports that the oil tanker Petro Dolphin was hit by a drone off Oman with black smoke rising from the vessel, and Tasnim News, citing UKMTO, reports a tanker was hit a few hours earlier. The IRGC says it struck another tanker in the Strait, a claim relayed on 13 Oct without a named vessel.

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Verification

Disputed: 2 independent sources.

Sources disagree on:

• Date: the UKMTO warning gives the incident date as 11 Oct 2026, and the OSINTdefender relay says the strike happened the previous day, while the event record places it at 12 Oct 15:48 UTC.
• Timing: Al Jazeera's report is timestamped 12 Oct 15:19 UTC, earlier than the 15:48 UTC occurrence time assigned to the UKMTO minute-level record, which UKMTO itself lists as TBC.
• Vessel: Al Jazeera names the tanker as Petro Dolphin, while UKMTO and its relays (Tasnim, OSINTdefender) name no vessel.
• Weapon and attacker: Al Jazeera describes a drone attack and UKMTO describes an unknown projectile; the IRGC claims a strike on another tanker and Tasnim attributes tanker hits to the IRGC Navy, with no independent attribution.

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Sources

• Al Jazeera English, 2026-10-12 15:19 UTC
• UKMTO: UK Maritime Trade Operations incident reports, 2026-10-12 15:51 UTC
• Tasnim News (Telegram), 2026-10-12 17:11 UTC
• OSINTdefender (X), 2026-10-12 17:14 UTC
• Tasnim News (Telegram), 2026-10-12 18:33 UTC
• Democracy Now!, 2026-10-13 14:28 UTC

First reported 2026-10-12 15:19 UTC; last updated 2026-10-13 19:07 UTC.

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