Accident Reports

Parting of lifting crane wire on high speed passenger craft Speedone resulting in rescue boat falling from height

Grounding of ro-ro cargo ferry Stena Pioneer

Fire in engine room of passenger vessel RMS St Helena

Failure of starboard outer bow door on ro-ro passenger ferry Pride of Provence before departure from port

Collision between prawn trawlers Sapphire II and Silver Chord, resulting in Sapphire II sinking

Contact made by passenger cruise ship Queen Victoria with quay

Securing arrangment failure and drifting of Dartmouth-Kingswear cable ferry resulting in contact with moored vessels

Collision between general cargo vessel Walzberg and potter Corona

Hull failure of rigid inflatable boat Big Yellow

Fire in engine room on passenger cruise ship The Calypso

Person overboard from potter Gradely with loss of 1 life

Collision between bulk carrier Seagate and refrigerated-cargo vessel Timor Stream

Collision, or close-quarter situation, between trawler Ocean Hound and unknown vessel resulting in trawler capsizing with loss of 5 lives

Grounding and sinking of stern trawler Brothers with loss of 2 lives

Fire in machinery space of chemical tanker Multitank Ascania resulting in abandonment and drifting of the vessel

Grounding of general cargo vessel Midland 2

Carbon monoxide poisoning from portable petrol pump on pair trawler/guard ship Starlight Rays with loss of 1 life

Grounding of container vessel Cosco Hongkong

Contact made by general cargo vessel Scot Venture with buoy

Collision between trawler Sant Yann II and container vessel Velazquez