Maritime News Thread

Atlantic Dawn · 17-01-2025 01:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123062871#Comment_123062871

MV Royal according to Irish Times...

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/01/16/gardai-searching-for-up-to-100m-worth-of-cocaine-smuggled-into-country-by-international-gang/

road_high · 19-01-2025 01:54AM

Just looking at the Nolan’s coach timetable- they said in social media it was revised to meet the new ferry times- but when you look the morning bus to Irish ferry arrived at 7.20 am ….but the ferry now leaves at 7.30 for Holyhead. Anyone know more? Obviously that would be useless as check in would be closed

Seanmk1 · 23-01-2025 03:20PM

Interestingly, the London-Holyhead direct ferry doesn't meet the afternoon ferry anymore.

The 9am train gets in at 1250, which is too tight for the 1315 sailing and can't be booked as a connection.

DOCARCH · 23-01-2025 05:13PM

I hope they have bubble wrapped Holyhead for tommorrow morning!

LXFlyer · 23-01-2025 08:18PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123089456#Comment_123089456

It’s impossible to keep the old sailing times with everything using the single jetty.

Taking the 10:00 train from Euston to Chester and connecting into the Transport for Wales train for Holyhead there connects into the 16:00 Stena sailing.

The 10:15 Stena sailing from Dublin connects into the 14:48 direct train from Holyhead to London.

Seanmk1 · 23-01-2025 09:25PM

Good call, I will give that a try

Vic_08 · 23-01-2025 09:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123089978#Comment_123089978

All sailings cancelled and nothing scheduled to ride the storm on berth at Holyhead.

neris · 10-02-2025 09:22AM

Worker killed at a shipyard in Genoa, the same yard where Dennis OBriens boat took a trip sideways a few years ago

https://youtu.be/njzb1B7fVAE?si=oZGc7uhogJaV2qEq

neris · 19-02-2025 02:10PM

Container ship aground in Canada, lost power and forced up on rocks

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/crew-rescued-as-msc-containership-blacks-out-in-storm-and-driven-ashore

road_high · 10-03-2025 08:49AM

a word of advice for anyone going

Foot passenger to Holyhead from Dublin- the Nolan coaches bus ferry timetable online isn’t correct- in the morning it’s 6.40am from the Custom house and the one I got it was even a few minutes early- literally no one in it bar me. A bit odd as there’s was loads of other foot passengers ahead of me when boarding the ferry

crushproof · 10-03-2025 01:41PM

This looks catastrophic, Maritime Traffic shows the container ship slamming into the side of the tanker without stopping. How this happens in this day and she is beyond me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t

DOCARCH · 10-03-2025 02:47PM

Had to check first no (apparent) Russian involvemnet! Apparantly tanker under US flag and transporting for US military.

Very hard to understand how this happens especially when one ship (the tanker) was at anchor!

Sky News reporting now 32 people injured. No reports (yet) of any missing or dead.

Larbre34 · 10-03-2025 02:48PM

Seems to be a catastrophe unfolding.

Stena Immaculate tanker (183m, 50,000 tons) was at anchor in mist off the Humber Estuary. Container ship Solong (140m) was steaming en route from Scotland to Rotterdam, and speared right into the tanker, it seems, at a speed of about 15 knots.

Emergency response from HM Coastguard, RNLI, Harbour pilots and others in vicinity. 40 or so crew have been brought ashore, 20 or so unaccounted for.

Hard to tell from the footage, but the container ship at least is fully ablaze and there are flaming slicks on the sea surface.

AndyBoBandy · 10-03-2025 02:55PM

mental!!

DOCARCH · 10-03-2025 02:55PM

According to BBC News, all the crew of the tanker are accounted for and safe.

blackwhite · 10-03-2025 02:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123250655#Comment_123250655

I don't think she was working for US military at the time. The vessel is part of the Tanker Security Programme, where the US can call them up for emergency short-term charter whenever required, but it's not on permanent charter to them.

banie01 · 10-03-2025 03:08PM

32 casualties reported and emergency response still ongoing. According to Sky News there was haze and light fog at time of impact but that all AIS appears to have been operational on both vessels throughout incident.

DOCARCH · 10-03-2025 04:12PM

Tanker carrying jet/aviation fuel for US military apparently.

AndyBoBandy · 10-03-2025 04:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123251020#Comment_123251020

I read on facebook that she wasn't currently on an active job for the Yanks, but she is a vessel that's part of a fleet they have a contract with and therefore 'always has to be ready'..

But either way, and whether the above is true of not, interesting series of events..

DOCARCH · 10-03-2025 04:26PM

From the BBC:

US logistics firm Crowley, which is the operator and joint owner of the MV Stena Immaculate, says the vessel was carrying jet fuel when it was hit by the Solong in the North Sea at approximately 10:00 GMT.

All of its crew of more than 20 are now safe and accounted for - but there are fears that jet fuel is now pouring into the sea.

In a statement, the Florida based company said: “A fire occurred as a result of the allision, and fuel was reported released. The Stena Immaculate crew abandoned the vessel following multiple explosions onboard. All Crowley mariners are safe and fully accounted for.”

I understand this jet fuel was owned by the US government. That’s consistent with the vessel being part of a US government programme designed to supply the armed forces with fuel during times of armed conflict or national emergency.

The US air force has several bases in the UK.

DOCARCH · 10-03-2025 05:49PM

Crews of both ships now all accounted for and safe. Only one hospitalised.

Edit: Stated now 1 crew member is missing from the cargo ship (Solong).

road_high · 10-03-2025 11:11PM

Hopefully any environmental impact might be fairly limited as it’s not like heavy crude oil and will likely be burned off and/or volatilised fairly quickly?

Tabnabs · 11-03-2025 11:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123251344#Comment_123251344

One sailor was on the fo'c'sle of the Solong when it happened. It was known from VHF conversations early on that he had died a pretty gruesome death. RIP.