[image] 20 Rescued After Cargo Ship 'MSC Baltic III' Runs Aground Off Newfoundland Coast A cargo vessel lost power and ran aground off Newfoundland’s coast today, prompting an emergency evacuation of all crew members. The MSC Baltic III issued a MAYDAY call on Saturday... Est. r…

The starboard anchor chain can be seen in the screen shot.

Based on where that line is hanging from on the starboard bow, I don’t think that is the anchor chain. But even if it were, if ever there was a time to deploy ALL anchors, this would be it.

[image] portofdc: You need to drop it. Which this ship clearly didn’t. Which raises a question I’ve often asked about securing the inboard end of the cable. My merchant mariner friends form a majority who prefer the cable to either not be secured or secured by a weaker link of some sort. My…

Yes, it does look like ship’s end is too high for an anchor chain.

I spooled up Aquamap and took a look (I love having useful charts in my pocket). I wouldn’t have found “Wild Cove” except the CCG had helpfully published a bulletin noting the location of this grounding. Certainly a desolate section of coastline. But the depths offshore are not particularly deep …

[image] yacht_sailor: Did their power failure take out all windlass controls? Is that even a thing? As long as the clutch isn’t engaged on the windlass (which it shouldn’t have been), you don’t need power to let go the anchors.

Acceptance trials of a naval vessel in the UK are brutal. Both anchors are run out in the Irish Sea and required to be recovered at a set number of metres per minute. At full astern (26 knots steam turbine) the helm was put over one way then the other and deflections were taken on the cross arms. A …

20 Rescued After Cargo Ship 'MSC Baltic III' Runs Aground Off Newfoundland Coast

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yacht_sailor February 18, 2025, 1:40pm 10

Seeing as this ship has both anchors aboard still, I guess they didn’t even try? Did their power failure take out all windlass controls? Is that even a thing?

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20 Rescued After Cargo Ship 'MSC Baltic III' Runs Aground Off Newfoundland Coast

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