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Casualty Newsletter 13th October 2021
FEATURE CASUALTY NEW CASUALTIES
Zhong An Yang Bulk carrier, IMO 9208502, Built 2000, 72,917
dwt
Date of Casualty 3 October 2021 – Late Notification
Voyage Quanzhou to Putian, China
Cargo 55,000 m/t of technical sand
Type of Casualty The vessel was holed, suffered water ingress and developed a 10º port list after hitting a reef in the northern Taiwan Strait, 5 nm south of Nanri island, China. The vessel was stabilised and brought to Quangang, China the following day. Click here for video.
Type of Claim Hull damage and possible salvage claim
Wijaya Kusuma 2 Bunkering tanker, IMO 9621675, Built 2011,
1,422 gt
Date of Casualty 6 October 2021
Voyage Tanjung Uban to Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Cargo No details
Type of Casualty Ran aground on the Helen reef, Indonesia. The tanker was refloated with assistance.
Type of Claim Hull damage and possible salvage claim
Annai Vailankanne Arockia Vennila SSailing vessel, MMSI 419800840
Date of Casualty 6 October 2021
Type of Casualty Suffered flooding whilst sailing 170 nm from Tuticorin, India and 230 nm off the Maldives. The MCP Salzburg, enroute from Colombo to Male, diverted and rescued the nine crew members.
Type of Claim Possible total loss
Juan Sebastian de Elcano ÍYacht, IMO 8642567, Built 1928, 3,750 dwt
Date of Casualty 7 October 2021
Type of Casualty Caught fire whilst undergoing maintenance at the Navantia facilities in La
Carrara, San Fernando, Spain. Local fire-fighters and the crew extinguished the fire.
Type of Claim Fire damage claim Fire damage claim
Obirix/Pegasus/Bokabarge 82Obirix - General cargo vessel with container capacity, IMO 9504267, Built 2008, 7,966 dwt
Pegasus – Anchor handling tug, IMO 9433743, Built 2009, 1,262 gt
Bokabarge 82 – Barge, No other details
Date of Casualty 7 October 2021
Voyage Riga, Latvia to Manfredonia, Italy / n/a / No details
Cargo No details
Type of Casualty The Obirix suffered an engine breakdown whilst transiting the Kiel Canal at Rendsburg, Germany and struck the Pegasus and the Bokabarge 82.
Type of Claim Collision damage claim
P&I Standard Club / Gard / No details
Farndale H Product tanker, IMO 8635332, Built 1967, 480
dwt
Date of Casualty 7 October 2021
Voyage Hull to Goole, UK
Cargo No details
Type of Casualty Ran aground 3nm west of the Humber Bridge.
Type of Claim Possible hull damage and salvage claim
Dragon Fly 1 Built 2006, 184 gt
Date of Casualty 8 October 2021
Type of Casualty Suffered technical failure at Neapoli, Greece. The vessel was towed to Bodrum, Turkey for repairs by the tug Christos XL.
Type of Claim Possible towage claim
Slettenberg Fishing vessel, IMO 9880817, Built 2021, 451 gt
Date of Casualty 8 October 2021
Type of Casualty Disabled off Hopen, Norway. The vessel was towed to Honningsvag.
Type of Claim Possible towage claim
The Zenith Passenger cruise vessel, IMO 8918136, Built
1992, 4,915 dwt
Date of Casualty 8 October 2021
Type of Casualty Broke free of its mooring in Lavrio, Greece and collided with four pleasure craft. A tug pulled the vessel back to her lay-up berth.
Type of Claim Collision damage and possible salvage claim
P&I American Club
Bishu Maru/BT 98398 TS ÍBishu Maru – LNG carrier, IMO 9691137, Built
2017, 83,752 dwt 2017
BT 98398 TS - Fishing vessel, NO other details
Date of Casualty 8 October 2021
Voyage Gibraltar to Zhoushan, China
Cargo No details / n/a
Type of Casualty The vessels were in collision in the South China sea. The fishing vessel sank.
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Further casualties overleaf sBearFishing vessel, MMSI 367632470, Built
1984, 72 gtDate of Casualty 8 October 2021Type of Casualty GroundingType of Claim Hull damage and salvage
claimIn the evening of 8 October 2021, the 68-ft fishing vessel Bear ran aground on a beach off Barnegat Light in Island Beach State Park, New Jersey, USA prompting an emergency response by the Coast Guard and local fire services.
The 1984 built scalloper was returning home to Viking Village near Barnegat Light early on Saturday evening loaded with a catch of 11 bags of scallops, when she grounded at 2000 hours on a sandbar at the Island Beach State Park, and became stuck in the surf. The crew of three were reported to be safe and had been able to escape from the grounded vessel onto the beach. The Coast Guard and the Seaside Park and Seaside Heights fire companies were notified of the grounding and at 2200 hours personnel and craft were dispatched to the area to provide assistance. A local team from TowBoatUS was also deployed the following
morning. The local fire brigade used a jet ski was used to get a line from the vessel to the attending tugs.
Initial attempts to pull the Bear from the beach were unsuccessful and a more powerful tug, Shamrock, was subsequently dispatched from Atlantic City to assist. However efforts to get her line to the Bear were abandoned due to prevailing weather conditions which were causing surf to continually pound the vessel. Local officials closed an area of the park to vehicles and anglers whilst the Bear remained aground due to the weather. In the meantime steps were taken by NorthStar Marine to remove 1,400 gallon of fuel from the fishing vessel. The crew were also reportedly able to remove the catch.
A further attempt to pull the vessel free was expected after weather conditions improve. Click here for video.
Type of Claim Collision damage claim
P&I Japan Club / No details
Campolide/Mario Campolide - Passenger vessel, IMO 7813200,
Built 1983, 54 dwt
Mario – Pleasure craft, No other details
Date of Casualty 8 October 2021
Type of Casualty The vessels were in collision whilst sailing on the River Tagus, near Cacilhas, Portugal. The Mario suffered damage and is a total loss.0
Type of Claim Collision damage claim
Hamburg SPassenger vessel, IMO 9138329, Built 1997,
1,378 dwt
Date of Casualty 9 October 2021
Type of Casualty Struck the Chicago Quay at the Hamburg Cruise Centre in Baakenhoft, Germany. There were 465 people on board. Click here for video.
Type of Claim Allision damage claim
P&I American Club
Konstantin Korotkov Passenger cruise vessel, Built 1976, 3,670 dwt
Date of Casualty 9 October 2021
Type of Casualty Ran aground whilst transiting the Moscow Canal blocking the waterway.
Type of Claim Possible salvage claim
Costa II Landing craft, IMO 9227558, Built 2001, 750
dwt
Date of Casualty 10 October 2021
Voyage Cabinda, Angola to unknown destination
Cargo No details
Type of Casualty Capsized 50 nm west of Port-Gentil, Gabon.
Type of Claim Possible total loss and loss of life claims
Tunu Pratama Jaya 3888 ÍLanding craft, IMO 8984381, Built 2001, 871 gt
Date of Casualty 10 October 2021
Voyage Banyuwangi, East Java to Gilmanuk, Bali, Indonesia
Cargo General cargo trucks and passengers
Type of Casualty Ran aground on a reef during berthing operations at the LCM Pelabuhan
Gilimanuk Pier. The vessel was able to refloated without assistance.
Type of Claim Hull damage claim
Cwind Spirit Support vessel, Bult 2015, 34 gt
Date of Casualty 10 October 2021
Type of Casualty Had a fire in her port engine which was extinguished using the fire suppression system. The vessel returned to Lowestoft, UK.
Type of Claim Fire damage claim
Noble Hans Deul Drill platform, IMO 9424015, 14,346 dwt
Date of Casualty 10 October 2021
Type of Casualty An issue with the port leg brace restricted the platform’s ability to manoeuvre whilst 32 nm from Cromer, UK. Tugs Njord Viking, Multratug 18, and Multratug 3 provided assistance. There were 66 people on board.
Type of Claim Possible salvage claim
Bohemia ÍCombined chemical and oil tanker, IMO
9245366, Built 2001, 2,498 dwt
Date of Casualty 10 October 2021
Voyage to Birsfelden
Cargo 1,300 m/t of diesel fuel
Type of Casualty Ran aground whilst sailing on the Rhine River near St. Goar, Germany. The vessel was refloated the following day with the assistance of two tugs.
Type of Claim Possible salvage claim
Panagia Kimisis Passenger ro-ro, IMO 8735912 , Built 2005,
284 dwt
Date of Casualty 10 October 2021
Type of Casualty Allided with the quay on arrival at Thassos port, Greece.
Type of Claim Allision damage claim
Qi Ye 6 Service ship, MMSI 413232740, No other
details
Date of Casualty 11 October 2021
Type of Casualty Disabled off Xiamen, China during poor weather caused by the approaching Typhoon Kompasu. 42 people on board were airlifted from the vessel which was later towed.
Type of Claim Possible salvage claim
Jin Wan Nv Wang General cargo vesssel, IMO 9513452, Built
2008, 9,719 dwt
Date of Casualty 11 October 2021
Voyage Chongming to Changjiangkou, China
Cargo No details
Type of Casualty Dragged her anchor during bad weather caused by Typhoon Kompasu whilst moored at Changle Airport, Fuzhou. Tugs were dispatched to assist.
Type of Claim Possible salvage claim
Loch Shira ÍPassenger ro-ro, IMO 9376919, Built 2007,
245 dwt
Date of Casualty 11 October 2021
Type of Casualty Suffered damage to her hull after contacting the seabed at Largs, UK. There were no passengers on board.
Type of Claim Hull damage claim
P&I North of England.
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CASUALTY FOLLOW-UP
X Press Pearl Í - editions 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 433, 434 & 436 - work to remove the wreckage of the containership is scheduled to commence in early November when the Southwest Monsoon is expected to subside. In the meantime the report into the environmental damage caused by the fire and subsequent sinking is expected at the end of November which will include costings for rehabilitation to the areas affected by the pollution.
Framfjord S - editions 324 & 370 - police in Norway have issued a charge against the Master of the vessel following the accident on 6 June 2019 in which the Framfjord allided with the Northhortlands Bridge between Bergen and Flatte, a charge which carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison. Damage to the vessel was in excess of NOK 10 million and damage to the bridge, which was weakened in the allision, was estimated at NOK 9 million.
Bulk Shenzhen & RB Lisa - edition 436 - the RB Lisa has returned to operational service after completing repairs to the damage caused in the collision with the Bulk Shenzhen on the Yangtze river on 2 August 2021. She departed the port of Zhoushan en route to Port Hedland on 8 October 2021.
Vera Su - editions - 443, 444 & 445 - the vessel’s engine compartment is now completely flooded and she been declared as sunken property by the local authorities although she is in a stable condition. According to reports the vessel will not be able to be refloated. Discussions regarding the removal of the cargo and the wreck are continuing. In the meantime Bulgarian prosecutors have placed the vessel’s Master and Chief Officer under arrest. They have been charged with endangering lives and the environment.