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The Individual Moments of Transport Crisis
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"Singles Only" Year 2012 - Our Feature Page - Page #17 - Our "Singles" Photo Features By Date
"Five Dead & Nine Day's Warning?" - 30 December 2012"Final Endeavoue" - 21 September 2012
"Hurricane Isaac Grounds M/V Hansa Berlin" - 26 August 2012
"Abandoned, Adrift & Afire" - M/V MSC Flaminia - July 16 2012
"Dock On The Bay" - June 2012
"Striking Beauty" - F/V Matanuska - May 12 2012
"Ghostly Voyage" -F/V Ryou-Un Maru - April 5 2012
"Carried Away" - M/V Carrier - April 7 2012
"Another On The Italian Coast" - M/V Gelso M - March 11 2012
"Moon Strucl" - M/V Stena Feronia - Feb. 7 2012
"Log Jammed" - M/V Dry Beam - Feb. 5 2012
"Capsize of M/V Costa Concordia" - Major Cruisew Ship Disaster - Jan. 13 2012
"No Smoking, Welding OK" - Explosion At Fujairah - Jan. 2012
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Transport Single Photo Nightmares
Contributed By Our Readers* REURN TO "Singles Only" MAIN INDEX
The Actual Red Wings
TU-204 - Tail Number RA-64047 - Which Ended It's Career On
Dec. 29 2012 After 8,500 Flight Hours The Aircraft Payload is
23,000 kilograms (51,000 lb) Configured For Cargo
Only The
Only Tupolev Tu-204 Fatal
Crash: On
December 29, 2012 at 16:35 local time (12:35 GMT), a
Red Wings TU-204 (RA-64047, cn 1450743164047), flight
number RWZ9268 aircraft crashed after overrunning the
runway at Moscow Vnukovo International Airport
following a flight from Pardubice Airport in the Czech
Republic. The aircraft broke up and caught fire after
landing. Vnukovo airport says there were only 5 crew
members aboard, with no passengers on board. The
aircraft was built in 2008. Both pilots, the
flight engineer and two flight attendants were killed
The Crash Occurred Amid Snow
& Winds Gusting To 30 mph Tail Number RA-64049 Over
Shot Runway 25, Split Into 3 Pieces & Required Shutdown
of The Kiev Highway Tail Number RA-64049 Blocks
The Kiev Highway In May 2008, he was
listed by Forbes magazine as one of the richest
Russians and as the 358th richest person in the world
with an estimated fortune of US$3.1Bn. He is part
owner of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and owner
of four UK newspapers with son Evgeny Lebedev: the
London Evening Standard, The Independent, the
Independent on Sunday and the new i
newspaper. Overlookingf Runway 25
Right Flanked by two F-18
fighters, Endeavour
in a tumultuous flyby of Los Angeles International
Airport, before circling and then landing here to mark
the end of her 26th & final mission -- again in
front of our windows. Our website of
about a normal 800,000 hits per day crashed, due to
literally a hundred thousand viewers trying to view
the event from all over the world from our LAX
Webcams. There was a
"Shuttle Party" here at the firm, as transport
executives, transport lawyers and family members
joined with our staff for the joyous final flight of
Endeavour
We stood -- amazed
-- for this landmark moment of American history. Go
USA !! Coming In For The Final
Landing As Thousands of People Line Aviation
Boulevard Thousands of People Line
Runways 25 Left & 25 Right As
Endeavour
And Her Escorts Are Followed By The Crash
Trucks On The Roof of The United
Airlines Maintenance Hanger, Employees Have A Front Row
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Photos By
Maria Hernandez
&
Blaine Prentiss
For
Countryman &
McDaniel M/V Hansa
Berlin On The
North Coast of Cuba, About 20 Miles From
Havan All Crew Are Rescued By
Helicopter After Hurricane Isaac Grounds The
Vessel -1,016 TEU -Liberian
Flag -12,582 Mtdw on
8.26M -Built 1993 at
Szczecinska
Shipyard,
Poland -Class GL -1,016 TEU 488 FEU
90 -DWT 13.000 -Length & Beam 150
meters & 22 meters -Gear 2 x 40 ton
cranes M/V Hansa
Berlin Was Making
Way From Santiago de Cuba to Havana When Hit By Hurricane
Issac Ship Owner Leonhardt
& Blumberg Has
Reportedly Been Granted Permission By Cuba To Contract With
A U.S. Salvage Company CONTRIBUTOR
For This Feature: M/V MSC
Flaminia In
Better Days Port of Charleston For
Port of Antwerp, When Disaster Strikes A Worst Case Scenario In
The Mid Atlantic Of 25 Crew -- One Dead,
One Missing & Three Injured Evacuated To The
Azorers. The
vessel's U.S. load ports were: ,Savannah
- July 7, 2012 Mobile
- July 2, 2012 New
Orleans &endash; July 1, 2012 Houston
- June 29, 2012 Fort
Lauderdale &endash; June 18, 2012 MSC's
standard form bill of lading for cargo to or from
the U.S. provides for jurisdiction in the Southern
District of New York and the application of U.S.
law. The
vessel's discharge ports were to have
been: Felixstowe
- July 19, 2012 Bremerhaven
&endash; July 21, 2012 Le
Havre
- July 23,
2012 The
German ship, built in 2001, is fully cellular, DWT
of 85,823, with a container capacity of 6,750 TEU,
is classed with Germanischer Lloyd, and is insured
with the Swedish Club for both hull and p & i
risks. She has been in regular liner service
among the above ports for some time, under a 16
year timecharter. The
current report is that Smit have been retained for
salvage and they have sent the ocean-going tugs,
M/V
Fairmount Expedition
and M/V
Anglian Sovereign
to the abandoned burning vessel. It has been
estimated that the tugs, both of which have
significant firefighting capability, will arrive on
scene tomorrow evening. How many
of these cargo owners do not have high quality
marine cargo insurance? They are about to receive
an unpleasant surprise as cash despotis are called
for under General Average. The Planned Rotation of
M/V
MSC Flaminia Truly A "Singles Only"
With This As The Only Press Photo Available As of July 16
2012 The
NSB Niederelbe operated vessel will have a hull
insurance value of about US$40M and assuming there
are 4,000 containers of cargo on board with an
average value of $30,000 that is another
$120m. Smit
are understood to have dispatched the 16,320-hp
ocean going
tug M/V
Fairmount
Expedition (built
2007) and the
16,500-hp M/V
Anglian
Sovereign (built
2003) to the last reported position of the MSC
Flaminia. There
have been no recent reports about the condition of
M/V MSC Flaminia but the containership was said to
be "well ablaze" when last spotted. It
will take the tugs, which have good firefighting
capability, until July 17 evening to reach the M/V
MSC Flaminia so the prospects of a successful
salvage operation remain to be seen. A
seriously injured crewman from
M/V
MSC Flaminia
has meanwhile been evacuated from the Azores to a
specialist burns unit in Portugal. Of
the 25 people aboard the vessel at the time of the
blaze one is confirmed dead, one missing and three
receving medical attention in the Azores. The
uninjured survivors who include two freighter
travel passengers are on the 311,000-dwt
tanker M/T
DS Crown (built
1999) and will in due course be landed at Falmouth
in the UK. The
crewmen injured as they fought the blaze were
rescued by the 6,402-teu containershipMSC
Stella (built 2004). NSB
Niederelbe say they have no recent information
about the condition of M/V MSC Flaminia, owned by a
Conti Reederei KG scheme, but on a 16 year charter
to Mediterranean Shipping Co. The
German operator is not giving any details of the
cargo in the Number Four hold which was the seat of
the blaze. Declared or undeclared hazardous cargo
such as the bleaching agent calcium hypochlorite
implicated in a number of major containership fires
could be a possible cause. NSB
Niederelbe's
1,600-teu M/V
Contship France (built
1993), now
the Marinos -
sustained serious damage to both hull and cargo in
1997 in an explosion and fire attributed to calcium
hypochlorite. A
number of containership owners including NSB
Niederelbe subsequently adopted a policy of only
carrying calcium hypochlorite as deck
cargo. It
has also emerged that five deficiencies of a
non-detainable nature were found on
M/V
MSC Flaminia when
the vessel was boarded by port state control
inspectors in December in Antwerp. One
of the deficiencies related to fire prevention
provision but NSB Niederelbe is not commenting on
exactly what was involved. The
M/V
MSC Flaminia
was on a voyage from Charleston to Antwerp at the
time of the fire with a crew of five Germans, three
Poles and 15 Filipinos. The nationalities of the
passengers is not known. The
hull insurance of the
M/V
MSC Flaminia
is led by the Swedish Club which also provides
protection and indemnity cover for the
vessel. The
dramatic photo of the
M/V
MSC Flaminia
on fire was taken from the Dr Peters controlled
tanker DS
Crown
which rescued the crew of the
containership. "We
responded immediately and did everything humanly
possible to help the vessel in distress. I am
extremely proud that the captain and the crew of
M/T
DS Crown acted
promptly and did everything they could to save the
23 survivors. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to the
families of the missing crew member and the first
mate," said Jurgen Salamon, Managing Partner of Dr
Peters. "On
11 November 2002, we ourselves suffered a similarly
horrific blaze on one of our own vessels,
M/V
Hanjin
Pennsylvania,
which resulted in the loss of two crew members. At
that time, others came to our aid &endash; this
time, we were able to give aid," added
Salamon. UPDATE From
The
Cargo Letter
- July 17 2012 Countryman
& McDaniel We Pray For The Crew of
M/V
MSC Flaminia And
Her Prompt Return To Service From
The
Cargo Letter
- July 21 Update "The
extent of the damage to the cargo is still not
known, and it is most likely that such an
assessment can only be made once the vessel has
reached a port of refuge," MSC said. The
line said another small explosion in one of the
ship's holds occurred July 17 afternoon, "which we
understand was relatively minor. The heat/fire in
the No. 4 hold appears less intense with the flames
on deck reduced overall." CONTRIBUTOR
For This Feature: The
66-foot (20-meter) long rectangular structure, made
of concrete and metal, was spotted floating off the
coast on Monday, and then washed in with the high
tide on Agate beach, 100 miles (160 kilometers)
southwest of Portland. The
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD)
contacted Japanese diplomats, who confirmed that it
was from the March 11, 2011 tsunami, and had
drifted 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) across the
Pacific over the last 15 months. Hirofumi
Murabayashi, deputy consul general at Japan's
consulate in Portland, said: "Four floating docks
were washed away by the tsunami. This is one of
them. "The
other three we don't know where they are, if
they're floating somewhere or they sank in the
ocean or not," he told AFP. Confirmation
that the dock came from the tsunami came after
Japanese writing and markings were found on various
parts of the seaweed-covered dock, including
"Shibata, Japan" on tires, apparently designed to
make it buoyant. An
OPRD spokesman said the dock was bigger than either
a
trawler scuttled off Alaska in
April
for safety reasons before reaching land, or a
shipping container with a Harley-Davidson inside on
a Canada beach at the start of May. "The
container with the motorcycle was a fair bit
smaller than this," spokesman Chris Havel told AFP.
"Certainly this is the biggest thing that's not a
boat that we've had on the Oregon shore in my
memory, for the last 17 years." The
dock has been checked for radioactivity -- the
killer earthquake and tsunami triggered a disaster
at the Fukushima nuclear plant on Japan's east
coast -- but had proved negative, said
Havel. Various
debris from the Japanese tsunami have begun washing
up on the US and Canadian west coast, and experts
predict a surge of flotsam in the coming
months. Japanese
officials confirmed that the dock -- 66 feet long,
19 feet wide and 7 feet tall -- came from the port
of Misawa, in Aomori Prefecture in the northern
part of Japan. The metal plaque was dated June
2008. The
consulate spokesman said the dock was able to float
due to being made of concrete and
styrofoam. "The
surface is concrete, there's some steel cables,
inside is styrofoam," Murabayashi said. "That's why
it floats on the sea. The dock itself doesn't
contain any hazardous materials." The
owner of the dock doesn't want it back. "They said
they don't wish to have it returned," Murabayashi
said. "I believe it will be disposed (of) in
Oregon." Havel
said two possible options were being studied:
salvage or demolition, and that it may take "one or
two days" to decide what to do. "We're
working with some salvage experts to get advice on
whether it's even possible to move it, whether we
have to wait for some certain conditions like
another high tide or whether theres some other way
to do it," he said. Kirk
Tite, visiting the Oregon beach with his young son
Trevor, said: "It's kind of scary seeing this wash
up here, because we all surf. "If
this crossed the Pacific Ocean and it's this big,
that means that just about anything of our worst
nightmares could cross the Pacific Ocean. So we're
kind of frightened of what's to come." A Japanese
Placard On The Dock Identifies Zeniya Marine Services
Company, Ltd. In Tokyo. The Company
Builds Docks And Floating Structures, But Does Not Want This
One Back. The Dock Was Covered with
Native & Exotic Marine Organisms. These Organisms Are Salt
Water-Dependent & Include Barnacles, Muscles &
Marine Algaes. Some of The Organisms Can
Only Be Found In Local Waters of Japan, Including An
Invasive Marine Algae, Undaria Pinnatifida. To Avoid The Spread of
Undaria Pinnatifida & Other Invasive Speacies The Dept.
of Fish And Wildlife Pemoved All Organisms From The
Dock. Our Other Featuresd About
The Japanese Tsunamin of March 2011 "Japan
Tsunami: Port of Sendai"
- March 11 2011 "Japan
Tsunami: The Shore Ships of Sendai Part
2"
- March 11 2011 Alaska Marine Highway
System's 408-foot M/V
Matanuska M/V
Matanuska Appears A
Bit Scuffed Up Jeremy Woodrow, a
spokesman for the Alaska Dept. of Transportation.,
says the 408-foot Matanuska hit the dock belonging
to Ocean Beauty Seafoods. The Petersburg
Pilot reports the ferry struck the dock while
performing a 360-degree maneuver, required in order
for it to dock in Petersburg. The face of the Ocean
Beauty cement dock was heavily damaged, dock
pilings were broken and a crane was
damaged. Even the second
floor of the idled processing plant was damaged,
with walls and outer walkways partially demolished.
The Matanuska shows possible dents and scrapes to
the bow of the ship. Petersburg
Harbormaster Glorianne Wollen told the Pilot: "It
wasn't a glancing blow. It pretty much was a
head-on hit." There were no
injuries in the incident. M/V
Matanuska Striking
Beauty Alaska Marine Highway
M/V
Matanuska Hit The Dock
While Negotiating A Turn in Wrangell Narrows Prior To
Docking CONTRIBUTORS For This
Feature: The Amazing
Unmanned Voyage of Squid Fisher
F/V
Ryou-Un Maru
- True Ghost Ship Through Storms, Winds &
Rouge Waves --
F/V
Ryou-Un Maru
Took Exactly One Year To Cover The 3,300 Miles U.S. Coast Guard
Island-class Cutter USCGC
Anacapa (WPB-1335)
Pours 25 mm Fire Into F/V
Ryou-Un Maru The
cutter's guns tore holes in the 164-foot
F/V
Ryou-Un Maru
on April 5, ending its long, lonely journey across
the Pacific that began when the deadly tsunami set
it floating more than a year ago. The
crew pummeled the ghost ship with high explosive
ammunition, and the derelict
F/V
Ryou-Un Maru
soon burst into flames, and began taking on water,
officials said. A
huge column of smoke could be seen over the gulf as
a Coast Guard C-130 cargo plane, sent to observe
the sinking, dropped a buoy to monitor for any
possible pollution. The
Coast Guard warned mariners to stay away, and
aviation authorities did the same for
pilots. In
about four hours, the ship vanished into the water,
said Chief Petty Officer Kip Wadlow in
Juneau. It
sank into waters more than 6,000 feet deep, about
180 miles west of the southeast Alaska coast, the
Coast Guard said. Officials
decided to sink the ship rather than risk the
chance of it running aground or endangering other
vessels in the busy shipping lanes between North
America and Asia. The
ship had no lights or communications system, and
its tank was able to carry more than 2,000 gallons
of diesel fuel. Officials, however, didn't know how
much fuel, if any, was aboard. "It's
less risky than it would be running into shore or
running into (maritime) traffic," Coast Guard
spokesman Paul Webb said. Island-class cutter
USCGC
Anacapa (WPB-1335)
Surveys The Gunnery Damage Named For Anacapa Island,
California, The Cutter Is Manned By 3 Officers & 19
Enlisted U.S. Coast Guard Gunnery
Makes Its Mark The Long Voyage of The
Japanese Ghost Ship F/V
Ryou-Un Maru Is Over, As
She Sank 6,000 Feet Deep In The Gulf of Alaska On 5 April,
2012 70% of The Earthquake Debris
Was Concrete & Other Heavy Material Which Sank --
But NASA Graphic Shows The
Remaining 30% - Some 1.5 Million Tons - Is Still fFoating
Toward The U.S. West Coast Our Other Featuresd About
The Japanese Tsunamin of March 2011 M/V Carrier
In Better Days VESSEL DATA Type: Mini
Bulkcarriers (1000-2000 GT) Ex Names:
M/V
Inga Call Sign:
V2KS IMO no:
8504959 Builders: Husumer
Schiffswerft Inh. Gebr. Kroger GmbH & Co. KG,
Husum, DE Yard No:
1499 Delivery:
1985-10-25 Owner:
Partenreederei M/V Carrier, GER Agent: Reederei
Erwin Strahlmann, Schleusenstrasse 10, 25541
Brunsbuettel, GER Port of Registry:
St. John's Flag: Antigua &
BarbudaClass Hullull: GL 100 A5 M DBC DIMENSIONS Tonnage GT:
1587 Tonnage NT:
843 Deadweight:
2378 Lenght o.a:
82 Lenght
b.p.:77.5 Breadth:11.3 Depth to maindeck:
5.4 Depth to tweendeck:
3.19 Draught (summer):
4.21 CARGO
CAPACITY Grain
[cbm]: 2904 Bale [cbm]:
2904 M/V Carrier
Is Lashed By High
Seas Two lifeboats and a
helicopter were called after the ship hit a rock
near a quarry jetty at Llanddulas, near Colwyn Bay,
Wales, UK. The ship is a
coaster, which uses the jetty to load
limestone. Oil has leaked from
the ship carrying 40,000 litres of fuel which ran
aground off north Wales, leading to concern over
the threat to wildlife. There are three
holes on the M/V
Carrier's
starboard, but high winds and rough sea are
expected to help break up light diesel that leaked
overnight. Riding The Riprap Clearly In The Wrong
Lane The
owners confirmed contractors will start the
demolition once they remove the ship's 24,000
litres of fuel. The work is expected to take six
weeks. Seven
Polish crew had to rescued when the vessel ran
aground April 3 2012. CONTRIBUTORS For This
Feature: Paul
Hubbard M/T Gelso M
- IMO 9367360 - In
Better Days -- Perhaps Her Last Days M/T Gelso M
Has Has Grounded In
Italy -- Engine Problems Gave Way To Storm Winds It Is Only Two Months After
M/V
Costa Concordia M/T
Gelson M
ran aground in rough weather off Sicily on March 10
2012, the Italian coastguard said, adding that the
19 crew were taken off by helicopter and were safe
amid worsening conditions. The
150-meter (500-foot) M/T
Gelso M
was driven on to rocks as it was planning to
approach the port of Syracuse around 0800 GMT and
began taking on water before the captain gave the
order to abandon ship, the coastguard said in a
statement. Coastguard
spokesman Cosimo Nicastro said four helicopters
airlifted the crew to safety and all were in good
health. The
ship, a tanker, was in ballast at the time of the
incident, and its double hull meant there was a low
risk of pollution but the environment ministry was
alerted nonetheless. The
position of the ship made it impossible for surface
craft to approach and the coastguard called for
more aerial assistance from the navy and the air
force. Rescue
service sources suggested that given the conditions
the captain had been sailing too close to the
coast. Rome-based
ship owner Augusta Due said the cargo ship ran
aground "because of a force 10 storm in the early
morning", adding that "an engine had problems
because of the ship's movements during the
storm". Smit
Salvage
has been hired by the owners of the Costa Concordia
to pump thousands of tonnes of fuel from the
stricken cruise liner lying on its side off the
northwest Italian coast. The
Gelso M was on its way from the Venice port of
Mestre to Augusta north of Syracuse where it was to
load a fuel shipment. Italian Coast Guard Rescues
9 Crew Members From Stricken M/T
Gelso M Four
Helicopters Participated In The Rescue Year Built:
2008 Length x
Breadth: 147 m X 22 m Gross
Tonnage: 11422, DeadWeight: 17999 t Speed
Recorded (Max / Average): 12.6 / 10.4
knots Flag: Italy
[IT] Call Sign:
ICHH IMO:
9367360, MMSI: 247229900 M/T Gelso M
In Repose -- Another
Tricky Salvage CONTRIBUTOR For This
Feature: A Collision In The
Night M/V Union
Moon (foreground)
& M/V
Stena Feronia
(background) One
female passenger who was on the ferry said she was
just sitting in her cabin when she heard a "massive
bang". "Then all the sirens went and we went
downstairs and we were all issued with life jackets
and told to prepare to get off in the raft," she
said. "I was scared, but the staff were great, very
good. They put us all at ease." Cahill
Loughran was also on board with his wife and four
children. "They said we might have to get into
lifeboats, they weren't sure what the damage was,
and then the captain came on and said the damage
was above the waterline," he said. The Stena ferry
arrived safely back at its terminal in Belfast,
"There was a hole, but it was above the
waterline." M/V
Union Moon was
carrying 2,000 tonnes of aggregate
(stones). The
Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the Marine Accident
Investigation Branch and the police are all
involved in the investigation. Engineers
from Stena Irish Sea are currently assessing the
damage to the vessel to see how long it will be out
of service. The
55-year old Master of
M/V
Union Moon
will appear in court on March 9 to face charges of
operating the vessel while
intoxicated. A Window On The Soul of
M/V
Stena Feronia Collision Gash Exposes
Interior of Vehicle Deck CONTRIBUTORS For This
Feature: Charles
Emberton M/V Dry
Beam As She
Arrived At Victoria, B.C. On Feb. 5
2012 The vessel was
en route to Japan from Longview, Washington, when
it ran into trouble, lost some logs and issued a
mayday call Feb. 2 2012 night about 480 kilometers
off northern Vancouver Island. A rogue wave had
pummelled the ship's port side and caused many of
the raw logs on the deck to shift toward the
starboard side. None of the 23
Filipino crew aboard the 26,000-ton vessel was
hurt. The damaged vessel limped into port at Ogden
Point in Victoria on Feb. 5, escorted from the high
seas by U.S. and Canadian coast guard
vessels. The wave that
slammed into the port side was 10-to-15 meters
high, said Capt. Jostein Hoddevik, principal
surveyor with IMS Marine Surveyors of
Burnaby. "It would have a
lot of water behind it, a lot of force," Hoddevik
said at Ogden Point on Monday. He was aboard
the vessel to assess the damage and review the
incident on behalf of the ship's
insurers. A qualified
captain with experience crossing the Atlantic,
Hoddevik said there is little the crew could have
done to avoid the wave. The incident
occurred in an area of the north Pacific that's
notorious for monstrous waves and punishing seas,
he said. The currents and
wave patterns combine to make this a highly
dangerous area. "Several of the
accidents I've been investigating have come from
the same general location &emdash; a small
area." M/V
Dry Beam was
in the wrong place at the wrong time, he said. "The
timing of the wave would be
crucial." Cargo vessels
are damaged by waves like this off the West Coast
once or twice a year, he said. Sometimes the damage
is relatively minor and the vessel can continue on
to its destination. At times, the
vessel must return to port for
repairs. M/V
Dry Beam lost
a few of her logs and others were dangling off the
starboard side as she arrived in
Victoria. The vessel will
need extensive repairs before it is seaworthy
again, Hoddevik added. The bent
stanchions on the port side will be cut off, and
the logs removed and put on another ship or
barge. Massive Vertical Support
Beams Bent Like Matchsticks There Are Many Who
Mistake The Fury of The North Pacific Ocean Longshoremen of I.L.W.U.
Canada Local 508 Assist M/V
Dry Beam CONTRIBUTORS For This
Feature: Barry
Campbell -
ILWU
Local 500,
Burnaby, B.C.
Canada OVER 100 PASSRNGERS THOUGHT
DEAD The RO/RO Cruise Ferry
M/V
Rabaul Queen In Better
Days Her Waters Were In Paradise
-- But She Is No More IMO Number:
8351297 Built: Japan, 1983
for PNG's
Rabaul
Shipping Operator:
Star Ships Owsner:
Rabaul
Shipping Tonnage:
259 GT (gross tonnage) Length: 155 ft
(47 m) Crew: 12 M/V Rabaul
Queen Has Sunk With An
Estimated 100 Or More Dead Just South On This Map, And
To The Right, Is The Great Barrier Reef, And Australia's
Famous "Gold Cost" On 2 February
2012, she sank some 9 nautical miles (16 km.) off
Finschhafen,
on her way from Kimbe to
Lae.
12 crew and an estimated 350 passengers were aboard
at the time.[ A joint rescue
effort by Papua
New Guinea
and
Australia
rescued 238 survivors, with over 120 still missing
as of 3 February. Survivors told rescuers that
large waves had hit the vessel just before it sank.
Many survivors were rescued by six merchant vessels
alerted by the Australian
Maritime Safety
Authority
(AMSA), which had been alerted by
Rabaul
Shipping that
the ferry had disappeared from a satellite tracking
system. Cause of the loss
is currently stated as "capsize" -- but there are
no details. Identification of
the passengers thus far is stated to include
Australians. UPDATE - Feb 3
2012 MV
Rabaul Queen
sank Feb. 2, in rough seas, and big waves and
strong winds made rescue efforts
difficult. Asingle survivor
was located Feb. 3, bringing the number of rescued
to 247. Rony
Naigu, a
National
Maritime Safety
Authority
official, told ABC News about 100 people are
thought to have been trapped inside when the ship
was hit by three large waves and sank. "The sea was really
rough, windy, big waves. The boat tilted once, then
twice, then three times and it went over," said
Alice Kakamara, who was recovering in a Lea
hospital Feb. 3, after inhaling toxins during the
sinking. "There was oil
everywhere," she said. The ferry's owners,
Papua
New Guinea-based
Rabaul
Shipping Company,
said there had been 350 passengers and 12 crew
aboard the 22-year-old Japanese-built ferry when it
went down Feb. 2 morning while traveling from
Kimbe
on the island of New
Britain to the
coastal city of Lae
on the main island. A police official said most of
those aboard were students. "We are stunned and
utterly devastated by what has happened," managing
director Peter
Sharp said in a
statement. The company said
the cause of the disaster remained unclear, but
National
Weather Service chief Sam
Maiha told
Papua New
Guinea's Post-Courier
newspaper that shipping agencies had been warned to
keep ships moored this week because of strong
winds. By nightfall Feb.
2, 246 survivors had been rescued by merchant ships
battling 16-foot (5-meter) swells and 45 mph (75
kph) winds at the disaster scene 50 miles (80 km)
east of Lae
and 10 miles (16 km) from shore, the
Australian
Maritime Safety
Authority
said. The sea temperature
was above 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees
Celsius) &emdash; warm enough for people to survive
for an extended period. Most of those rescued had
been wearing life jackets. The 155-foot
(47-meter) cruise/ferry sank in 3,300-foot
(one-kilometer) deep water, making it difficult to
determine whether bodies were trapped
inside. The survivors were
delivered to Lae,
the South
Pacific
country's second-largest city, by five ships early
Feb. 3. "None of them had
sustained any real injuries. They were pretty cold
and miserable," Lae
Chamber of Commerce president Alan McLay
told
Sky
News
television. The search
continued at first light Feb. 3, with three ships,
two airplanes and two helicopters, AMSA
said. An angry crowd
threw stones at the Kimbe
office of Rabaul
Shipping Company
on Feb. 2 night, outraged at a lack of information,
police said. The company said
the ferry's captain had made routine radio contact
with another vessel before sinking and gave no
indication anything was wrong. The accident
remains unknown, but safety in the shipping
industry in PGN is known to be lax. CONTRIBUTOR For This
Feature: Authorities say
more than 4,000 passengers and crew members were
aboard M/V
Costa Concordia
when she ran into trouble near the
Tuscan
island of Giglio.
Passengers were sitting down to dinner at the time
of the incident. One passenger told
Italian
media the ensuing panic onboard the ship was "like
a scene from the Titanic." Some of those onboard
are reported to have jumped into the icy waters to
escape the badly listing ship that began taking on
water through a gash in the hull. Officials say a
rescue operation using lifeboats and helicopters
has evacuated passengers and crew to the island of
Giglio
and to Porto
Santo Stefano
on the mainland. The accommodations
on the 290-meter long, 13-deck
M/V
Costa Concordia
included 13 bars, 5 restaurants, 4 swimming pools
and 500 balcony staterooms. M/V
Costa Concordia
has capsized and is sinking. This Is Likely The End of
M/V
Costa Concordia
Crude Oil
Tanker
M/T Prem Divya DWT
109227 Built: Dec.
1996 Flag:
India Manager/Owner:
Anglo-Eastern Some 105 local repair
workers and crew were on board when welding work
created a spark that triggered three blasts on the
tanker M/T
Prem Divya on Dec
29 2011 in Fujairah
port, UAE,
where tanker was undergoing repairs. Explosions left
three people dead, one injured and two missing. Half
of the 24-man crew are now staying in hotels, and the
other half would remain with the vessel. The tanker
had arrived in Fujairah
on December 27 for 10 days of scheduled maintenance
repairs. Workers from local firms had come to check
the pipes and do welding in the engine room and other
repairs and maintenance. It is not clear where
the explosion occurred but early reports suggest hot
work in the pump room ; however where ever the work
was being undertaken the vessel clearly was not gas
free. Also attached is an eye witness comment from a
vessel anchored about 0.5 nm from the subject vessel
when the explosion occurred. Here is an eye witness
comment from a vessel anchored about 0.5 NM from the
subject vessel when the explosion occurred. Own vessel
immediately prepared M/E and gave astern movement
to increase the distance from that vessel as it was
anchored ahead of own vessel. own vessel
immediately started deck water and started spraying
water on own deck as a safety measures and
immediately started picking up anchor.. All crew of
that vessel found standing on poop deck aft for
help. Own vessel informed to port control the
situation and requested for immediate rescue as the
communication system of that vessel was completely
broken.3 rescue boats came near to that vessel In
the meantime one more explosion took place on
M.T.
Prem Divya
which completely shattered the vessel. All rescue
boats went away to save themselves. Own vessel
coordinated most of the communication between port
control and the distress ship. Distress vessel was
communicating with GMDSS W/T which the port control
was unable to read properly. Own vessel picked up
anchor and moved away to safe position and
re-anchored. As learnt from communication there
were 90 work shop people boarded the vessel for
carrying out various jobs in E/R , deck and pump
room. While carrying out hotwork in pump room
explosion took place.3 persons working in pump room
are still missing . The ship is presently having 10
deg list to Stbd due ingush of water . The
fire-fighting tug continuously spraying water on
vessel . The Master and 2/O are on board , the
rescue team from port is also on board searching
for the causalities. There is total black out on
the vessel The cause of
fire seems to be hot work in pump room on non
gas-free tanker. No hot work to be allowed on any
tanker unless it is very urgent and that also to be
done with ship completely gas free with no slops on
board, taking all other precautions. Kindly note
that all hot work jobs to be positively identified
specially on deck, cargo tanks and pump rooms and
to be done in dry dock not left for ship staff with
limited resources. Believe me seeing a tanker
exploding like a bomb at a distance of 0.5 NM is
really frightening and it also teaches a big
lesson." CONTRIBUTOR For This
Feature: Mark
Baker -
Technical Superintendent, Gulf Energy Maritime (GEM) PJSC,
Dubai, UAE Adirondack
Scenic Railroad's
Alco
RS-18 ready For
Polar
Express
Runs
Polar
Express
- Hear The Music Departing
Union
Station,
Utica,
New
York
Daily For A Magical Ride To The
North
Pole It
is, I understand, an all volunteer effort by
CP
Rail,
its yard workers who decorate the trains and the
crews that man it. Canadian
Pacific Holiday Train Blog Pat
Smith CONTRIBUTOR For This
Feature:
Tupolev
Tu-204: A
twin-engined medium-range jet airliner capable of
carrying 210 passengers, designed by Tupolev and
produced by Aviastar SP and Kazan Aircraft Production
Association. First introduced in 1989, it is
considered to be broadly equivalent to the Boeing 757
and has competitive performance and fuel efficiency in
its class. It was developed for Aeroflot as a
replacement for the medium-range Tupolev Tu-154
trijet. The latest version, with significant upgrades
and improvements, is the Tu-204SM, which performed its
first flight on 29 December 2010. This story concerns
this latest model Tu-204SM.
Incident
At Novosibirsk:
On December 20, 2012 -- nine days before this crash --
a Red Wings TU-204 (RA-64049) overran Runway 25 at
Tolmachevo Airport by 1,150 feet (350 meters) when the
plane's engines failed to reverse thrust and its
brakes failed on landing. No injuries occurred. The
aircraft landing gear & tires were destroyed. The
website RussianPlanes.net
reports the very same aircraft tail number
RA-64047 suffered an engine failure and was
forced to make an emergency landing in June 2009.
Did
Novosibirsk Predict Moscow?:
"The plane
touched down in the proper landing area but for some
reason was unable to stop on the strip,"
Federal Air Transport Agency chief Alexander Neradko
said in televised remarks. On Dec. 29 2012 -- the crew
had little chance to survive.
Incredible
Video As The Flight Crosses Kiev
Highway
Step
By Step Video Details of The Crash
Owner
of Red Wings:
Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev, famous for his
critical view of the Kremlin, is a Russian
businessman, born 16 December 1959, referred to as one
of the Russian oligarchs.
This
was the view -- at eye level -- from the Countryman
& McDaniel LAX offices on September 21, as Shuttle
Endeavour
streaked past our office windows.
M/V
Hansa Berlin
Blek
Stena
From
The
Cargo Letter
- July 16 2012
The
containership M/V
MSC FLAMINIA
suffered a disastrous fire and explosion July 14,
during the course of regular liner service from
U.S. ports to Europe. The extent of this
casualty is evident from the fact that the crew of
25, after a Mayday was sent, had to abandon ship,
with one crewman dead, three injured and one
missing.
Charleston
- July 8, 2012
Antwerp
- July 17, 2012
From
The
Cargo Letter
- July 16 2012
The
6,732-teu M/V
MSC Flaminia
(built 2001) abandoned 1,000 miles from land is a
potentially high value salvage contract.
Earlier
this week we received our first claim/case
assignments for the
M/V
MSC Flaminia
loss. Please let us know if Countryman &
McDonnell may be of assistance to your
situation.
Michael
McDaniel
From
The
Cargo Letter
- What Is A Flaminia?
The
Via
Flaminia
is a famous road leading fromRome over
the Apennine
Mountains to Ariminum (Rimini) on
the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and due to the
ruggedness of the mountains was the major option
the Romans had for travel
between Etruria, Latium and Campania and
the Po Valley. Today the same route, still
called by the same name for much of its distance,
is paralleled or overlain by Strada Statale (SS) 3,
also called Strada Regionale (SR) 3
in Lazio and Umbria, and Strada
Provinciale (SP) 3 in Marche. It leaves Rome,
goes up the Val Tevere ("Valley of the Tiber
River"), strikes into the mountains at Castello
delle Formische, ascends toGualdo Tadino, goes over
the divide at Scheggia Pass, 575 m
(1,886 ft), to Cagli. From there it
descends the eastern slope waterways between the
Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and the Umbrian
Apennines to Fano on the coast and goes
north parallel to Highway A1 to Rimini
A
firefighting tug was dispatched by the vessel's
German owner NSB Niederelbe Schiffahrtsges. mbH
& Co. (MSC charters the ship). MSC said a
second salvage tug was due to arrive yesterday,
with a third tug to arrive shortly after.
Hildegard
"Hilde" E. Krause - Assistant Claims Manager, Roanoke
Claims Services
From
The
Cargo Letter
- June 7 2012
A
huge floating dock cast adrift by Japan's 2011
tsunami has washed up on an Oregon beach, believed
to be the biggest piece of flotsam to make landfall
on the U.S.s West Coast so far.
"Tsunami
Ghost Ship" -
April 2012
From
The
Cargo Letter
- May 7 2012
The state
ferry M/V
Matanuska,
one of the largest in the Alaska Marine Highway
System's fleet, hit a Petersburg seafood processing
plant's dock head-on May 7, causing significant
damage.
Stewart
and Julie Amgwert
- Palmer, Alaska
From
The
Cargo Letter
- April 5 2012
U.S. Coast
Guard Island-class cutter
USCGC
Anacapa
(WPB-1335) poured
cannon fire into a Japanese ghost ship that had
been drifting since the last year's tsunami,
sinking the vessel in the Gulf of Alaska and
eliminating the hazard it posed to shipping and the
coastline.
"Japan
Tsunami: Port of Sendai"
- March 11 2011
From
The
Cargo Letter
- April 4 2012
Seven crew
members have been rescued from stricken cargo
M/V
Carrier that
ran aground off the Conwy coast in rough
seas.
From
The
Cargo Letter
- April 7 2012
MV
Carrier
will be cut into "manageable" sections on the shore
at Llanddulas, near Colwyn Bay, Wales, and sent to
a scrap yard by road.
Ashley
Black - Cargo
Letter
Correspondent
in The UK
From
The
Cargo Letter
- March 11 2012 -
Two
months after the M/V
Costsa Concordia
disaster, there is another dramatic grounding on
the North Italian coast.
M/T
Gelso M
Ship
Type: Oil/chemical tanker
VIDEO
of The Event
M/T
Gelso M #1
Fontanassa
From
The
Cargo Letter
- March 8 2012 -
Ro/ro
ferry M/V
Stena Feronia
and cargo M/V
Union Moon
have collided near Belfast, Ireland, close to the
Fairway buoy about a mile and a half from shore
between Carrickfergus and Helen's Bay around 19:45
GMT on March 7 2012. There were no injuries. The
Stena Line ferry subsequently docked at the Stena
terminal. M/V
Union Moon -
was accompanied by the coastguard as it was brought
back to Belfast. M/V
Stena Feronia was
on her way from Birkenhead, Merseyside, to Belfast
when the collision happened.
Ashley
Black
From
The
Cargo Letter
- Feb. 2 2012 - Log Jammed
The
186-metre cargo M/V
Dry Beam
arrived at Ogden Poin, Victoria, British Columbia,
Canad on Feb. 5 2012, with its massive vertical
support beams bent like matchsticks and its load of
logs shoved askew by a rogue wave on the North
Pacific.
Cam
Bremner
M/V
Rabaul Queen
Class &
Type: Passenger/Ro-Ro Ferry
From
The
Cargo Letter
- Feb. 2 2012 - currently about 100 feared
dead
MV
Rabaul Queen a
259 GT (gross ton)
Papua
New Guinea-flagged
passenger/ro-ro ferry. Built in Japan in 1983 for
PNG's
Rabaul
Shipping Co.,
the ferry plied a regular route between
Kimbe,
the capital of West
New Britain,
and Lae,
the capital of the mainland province of
Morobe.
A day after
rescuing nearly 250 survivors of a ferry sinking
off Papua
New Guinea's
east coast, crews searchingFeb. 3 for more than 110
other people aboard found only one more. Many of
the missing may still be in the vessel, now at the
bottom of the sea.
Gervase
Pearce - BCS
Consulting, Neutral Bay, Australia
The
Cargo Letter
- Jan. 13 2012 - Capsize of
M/V
Costa Concordia
Italian
officials say at least three people were killed and
several injured when luxury cruise
M/V
Costa Concordia
ran aground off the coast of
Tuscany
onJan. 13 2012.
That is fewer dead than first reported.
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M/T
Prem Divya
IMO
9138599
"All
kindly note that own Vessel M.T. xxxxxx anchored in
"A" anchorage Fujairah about 0.5NM of M.T. Prem
Divya. Own vessel noticed that hotwork on deck and
on bridge wing was going on at about 1745 LT.
Suddenly a heavy explosion took place on
M.T.
Prem Divya
and vessel was on flames and full of smoke forward
of accommodation..
Seems likely that
they were trying to complete steel renewals before
dry-docking, as regulations are more onerous in the dry
dock and of course it is more expensive.
More
Christmas Tains
I
enjoyed the picture of the
Adirondack
Scenic Railway
Christmas
train. You may not be aware that
CP
Rail
runs a Christmas
train every year complete with entertaiment (the
entertainers live in a couple of beautiful private
cars). The train (actually 2 of them) goes across
Canada
and the U.S. One boxcar has been modified to serve
as a stage. People are asked to bring donations to
local food banks when they come to see the
train.
Canadian
Pacific Holiday Train
Rich.
BausPat Smith
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