Casualty – Japanese Navy Minesweeper JS UKUSHIMA MSC 686 Sinks after fire – 11.11.2024
Early today Monday 11th November the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Sugashima Class Coastal Minesweeper JS UKUSHIMA MSC 686 capsized and sank off Japan’s western coast about 2.5 kilometres off Oshima Island in Fukuoka Prefecture after a fire broke in her engine room on Sunday 10th, November. Homeported at Sasebo, Japan she was commissioned on […]
Casualties – Fire breaks out on ropax EUROFERRY OLYMPIA with 290 souls on board – 18.02.2022
On Friday 18th February, 2022 around 0224 UTC the 1995 built ropax EUROFERRY OLYMPIA with 239 passengers and 51 crew members while she was on her way to Brindisi Port from the Greek city of Igoumenitsa fire broke out near the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea. near the island of Corfu in the […]
Casualties – USS BONHOMME RICHARD LHD 6 fire – 12.07.2020
On Sunday 12th July 2020, an explosion occurred around 0850 hrs aboard the US Navy Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS BONHOMME RICHARD LHD 6 while she was berthed at her home port, Naval Base San Diego undergoing maintenance. The resulting fire was fuelled by paper, cloth, rags or other materials, not fuel oil or […]
Accident – 4 Boats on Fire at Mgarr Marina, Gozo – 26.06.2020
4 yachts – 3 sailing and a pleasure yacht possibly a powerboat were damaged during a fire while moored at Pontoon B, Mgarr Marina, Gozo. The fire is believed to have started from the pleasure yacht (possibly a powerboat) and flames quickly spread to the mainsail of a sailing yacht with the consequences that other […]
