Everyone here is familiar with the regular list of major maritime disasters that have happened since World War II (e.g. Herald of free enterprise, marine electric, exxon valdez). But what are some of the leaser know tragedies that have a compelling story but have never been featured in a book or mov…

The worst accident in terms of life lost and involving floating Rigs or Drillships were the Alexander Kielland capsize at the Ekofisk field in 1980. 123 persons lost their life: https://officerofthewatch.com/2013/04/29/alexander-l-kielland-platform-capsize-accident/ The case is still being iin the …

There is also the semi submersible drilling rig "Ocean Ranger"off the coast of Canada, no survivors, tug Willamette Pilot III, sank during a storm off of California, all hands lost and the tug Eagle, one survivor, sank in the Gulf of Alaska, I know they were only tugs, but it affected us tug guys.

Another major accident was the capsizing and sinking of the drillship Seacrest in the Gulf of Thailand in 1989, with the loss of 91 people. She was owned and operated by Unocal at the time, but built as Scan Queen for Mosvold at the Far East Levingston Shipyard in Singapore in 1977 as the last of …

M/V Donna Paz. Google “Asia’s Titanic” for Nat Geo documentary on YouTube. Plenty of blame to go around with nobody accepting it. Bad situation all the way. 4,000 people, govt cover up.

MS Al Salam Boccaccio 98, a RO-RO passenger ferry sank February 2006 en route from Duba, Saudi Arabia, to Safaga in southern Egypt, Fire believed to have started prior to leaving port but the ship left anyway. The ship capsized when stability was lost due to water accumulation from the crew fighting…

[image] Chiefluis: tug Willamette Pilot III, sank during a storm off of California, all hands lost and the tug Eagle, one survivor, sank in the Gulf of Alaska, I know they were only tugs, but it affected us tug guys. Both the Willamette Pilot III and the Eagle were mentioned on this thread.

There was the Burma Agate collision and fire off Galveston in '79.

Are we counting shoreside maritime incidents as well? Texas City - 1947 Halifax - 1917

OMI Challenger, Dockwise boat sinks in the Luanda Harbor: http://www.professionalmariner.com/March-2007/Heavy-lift-ship-sinks-off-Angola-after-unloading-drilling-rig/ . And then there was, you know, the entire Atlantic Hurricane Season of 2005

how about miracles at sea? [image] MS Prinsendam (1973) MS Prinsendam, a Holland-America liner built at Shipyard de Merwede in the Netherlands in 1973, was 427 feet long and typically carried about 350 passengers and 200 crew members. The liner was sailing through the Gulf of Alaska, appr…

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Kennebec_Captain July 19, 2017, 1:38am 14

Both the Willamette Pilot III and the Eagle were mentioned on this thread.

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