Accident Reports

Fire in pump room on standby vessel Viking Victor resulting in vessel sinking

Fire in pump room on tanker Bitfjord

Fire on long liner Shark and flooding of gill netter Royalist resulting in it sinking

Fire on twin rig prawn trawler Vision II, used as overnight accommodation, with loss of 3 lives

Flooding and sinking of grab hopper dredger Abigail H

Flooding and sinking of narrowboat Barbary Partridge

Flooding and sinking of seiner/trawler Christine Nielsen

Flooding and sinking of wooden potter Majestic

Flooding and sinking of trawler Ocean Quest

Flooding and sinking of tug Adherence

Flooding and sinking of twin rig trawler Transcend

Flooding, capsize and sinking of prawn trawler Diamond D

Grounding and capsize of berthed trawler Saint Christophe 1 resulting in loss of the vessel

Grounding and evacuation of domestic passenger vessel Surprise

Grounding and flooding of ro-ro ferry Commodore Clipper

Grounding and sinking of potter Rachel Harvey with loss of 1 life

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

Safety warning issued following the foundering of fishing vessel Argos Georgia with the loss of 13 lives

Second safety warning issued after mooring line failure on board LNG tanker Zarga resulted in serious injury to a deck officer

Series of accidents including windlass damage, grounding and 1 person injured on ro-ro cargo ferry Norcape