US flagged ship.
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Big response from the harbor tugs.
The track line on marine traffic from the other ship looks like it ran right the Immaculate.
An oil tanker and cargo ship are both reported to be on fire after colliding in the North Sea off the coast of Lincolnshire, the RNLI said:
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Now, ‘Stena Immaculate’ is not immaculate anymore; she became ‘Stena Raped’…
One more of these sad crashes while at anchor.
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BBC reports all 20 Stena Imm crew, accounted for, safe, ashore. Not clear about Solong crew.
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Live BBC News report:
Portuguese kamikaze ships?
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How on earth…???
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16 kts on the same course for around 7 hours. Doesn’t seem very kamikaze to me.
Broad daylight too - seems just like complete incompetence. Or asleep at the wheel.
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Portuguese ships in the past required a large number of Portuguese mariners to be on each ship. Minimum manning was quite high. In any case surely someone could have been looking out a window.
It’s not a very big ship. They can’t have that many people onboard just from a size perspective.
Once I saw the track line of the Portuguese ship I figured the watchstanders were asleep or not up there at all.
I hope the watchstanders on the Immaculate were screaming into the radio.
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“Children of the Magenta Line”…
… plus ECDIS/autopilot on track-follow, ARPA alarms off, collision alarms off, BNWAS disabled, and worse - no-one on the bridge, looking out the f-ing bridge windows!
All while running coastwise <10nm off the busy N. Sea coast (2nm off Flamborough!).
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Bad luck for the Immaculate to anchor exactly on the Solong track line.
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In daylight, on autopilot with the OOW either busy on his mobile phone, or doing paperwork?
But it also raise a question about the watchkeeping on the anchored vessel:
- Were there anybody on the bridge at all?
- Was a lookout being kept for approaching vessels?
- Was the radar on and monitored? If so, was manual plot being done on a ship that approached on a steady collision course since getting within radar range?
- Was there any auto CPA/TCPA or AIS Proximity alarms active?
PS> In most cases of collision there are a shearing of blame, although it is hard to see any here.
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The Solong’s flag is Madeira, a small Portuguese island between the Azores and the Canary islands.
It is the international flag of Portugal.
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