Accidents – Car Carrier DON QUIJOTE broke moorings knocking a Dock Crane in Germany – 09.07.2023
Around 2100 hrs of Sunday 9th July the stern mooring lines together with the bollard of the Wallenius Wilhelmsen’s 25-year-old car carrier DON QUIJOTE broke and ripped out, causing the vessel to drift in the Bremerhaven Harbour from the west bank to the east bank at the Lloyd Werft shipyard and damaged the floating and dry […]
High Speed Craft – HSC ARTEMIS sold and left Malta – June 2023
Ponte Ferries’ catamaran HSC ARTEMIS arrived yesterday Monday 19th June at Algeciras, Spain after she was sold to the Spanish company FRS Iberia after winning the bid from two interests. Other one was from Greek interests. HSC ARTEMIS was acquired from Fred Olsen, a leading ferry operator in Spain that specializes in inter-island routes aboard […]
Malta Drydocks – Nanuchka Class Missile Corvettes for repairs – 1985
Over a 47 year period Malta Drydocks (MDD) from 1963 to 2010 evolved into a conundrum that baffled successive governments, the Maltese and the Dockyard workers themselves. Few people know that after Malta became neutral (Freedom Day is celebrated annually – 31st March) and we still have Brainwashed People saying that no more warships since […]
Casualties – CHEM P salvage update – 21.03.2022
With stormy weather including ESE gale force winds with very high swell the shifting of the tanker CHEM P from her current position to a designated area was hampered and cancelled for Sunday 20th March, 2022. With SITREP every hour or so to access the situation it was decided to leave it for today Monday […]
Casualties – Container Ship CMA DJAKARTA on fire – July 1999.
On the night of Monday 12th July, 1999 the 1998 built 2,102 TEU containership CMA DJAKARTA caught fire off Crete following an explosion. The vessel, owned by Gebr Winter of Hamburg, was on long-term charter to Compagnie Maritime d’Affretement (CMA), Marseilles from 9th April, 1999. She was deployed on CMA’s North Europe/Japan/China service, NCJ-TPX U.S. […]
Casualties – Collision between 2 ferries at Palermo Port – 03.10.2021
On Sunday 3rd October, 2021 morning the Tirrenia ropax RAFFAELE RUBATTINO coming from Naples, Italy collided with the berthed Siremar ferry ANTONELLO DA MESSINA at Palermo Port, Sicily. It seems there was a stern thruster failure with both ships sustained damages with ANTONELLO DA MESSINA nose damaged while RAFFALE RUBATTINO had stern ramp and starboard […]
Breaking Up – 1995 built container ship BUNGA PELANGI DUA – 2012
On Monday 16th July, 2012 the 1995 South Korean built container ship BUNGA PELANGI DUA was broken up at Alang, India. She was built at Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd (HHI) at Seoul in South Korea as Yard No 919. She was 275.1m long with 37.19 m beam. Homeported at Port Kelang, Malaysia (MYS Flag) with […]
Naval News – Japanese Navy Submarine hit bulker while surfacing – 08.02.2021
The crew of the Japanese Navy Soryu Class Diesel-electric submarine SS 501 SORYU suffered minor injuries, while the submarine suffered damage to her mast, after they surfaced underneath a Hong Kong homeported 229 metres long bulker OCEAN ARTEMIS. The submarine was in the process of surfacing about 27 nautical miles south of Cape Ashizuri on Japan’s […]
Casualties – Russian Navy Corvette collides with a Refrigerated Ship – 23.09.2020
On Wednesday 23rd September, 2020 early morning the Russian Navy Corvette RFS KAZANETS collided with the 145 metres long refrigerated ship (NOT a container ship as reported by several media) ICE ROSE in dense fog in Danish waters on Wednesday near the Oresund Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden. The reefer sailed under her own power […]
Beirut Blast – 21 Bangladesh Navy crew injured – 04.08.2020
At least four Bangladeshi nationals have been killed and around 100 more, including 21 members of the Bangladesh Navy, have been injured in two massive explosions that rocked the port of Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday. In a press release on Wednesday 5th August, 2020, the Inter Service Public Relation Directorate (ISPR) confirmed at least […]
