Tag: American Club

On its most recent "Good Catch" - a series where the American Club provides valuable lessons learned from incidents - the Club refers to case in which the use of inadequate bollards caused a passenger vessel to hit and damage a cement carrier.

In its 'Good Catch' initiative, The American P&I Club highlights that it can be very dangerous to tie or “hold-open” fire doors, watertight doors, and doors on the weather deck. 

In its most recent Good Catch series, the American Club, provides lessons learned from corroded or damaged fuel oil vent pipes in cargo holds.

Dr. William Moore, Global Loss Prevention Director - S.V.P., The American Club, makes an assessment of 2021 and shares his message for the new year across the global maritime community.

American club summarizes an incident where a Second Officer was significantly distracted from his primary watchstanding duties when he was working on the passage plan, resulting to the vessel's grounding.

The American Club informs about an incident where crewmembers extinguished the fire that was smoldering in the generator exhaust lagging.

The American Club informs about an incident when the captain of an inland towing vessel, ordered his crew to stop working as a precautionary measure.

The American Club provides lessons learned from an incident where a general cargo vessel’s generator experienced a catastrophic failure while underway resulting in a fire that spread immediately to the bilges under the generator.

The American Club reports an incident where voyage planning problems resulted to grounding and loss of ship.

The American Club reports an incident of poor anchor watchkeeping, that led to two vessels collision, and provides lessons learned.