Tag: vessel sinks

Shanghai Salvage will remove the wreck of the sunken ship X-Press Pearl off the coast of Sri Lanka.

September 2021 marked 41 years since MV Derbyshire was lost at sea adding a black page to UK’s maritime history and redefining safety of bulk carriers.

Algerian civil authorities rushed to help the crew of ro-ro after the vessel took on water, causing it to partially sink in the port of Algiers.

A privately-funded expedition, commissioned by relatives of the victims of the M/S Estonia ferry that sank into the Baltic Sea nearly 27 years ago, will dive into the vessel’s wreckage this month.

Following the grounding incident of the wood-chip carrier "Crimson Polaris" off Hachinohe, the vessel’s hull split into two pieces and began spilling oil. 

A ship ran aground in a northern Japan harbour, then split in two and was leaking oil, but there were no injuries among the 21 crew, the Japan Coast Guard said.

As the Hong Kong Merchant Shipping informs, a bulk carrier loaded with 55,000 metric tonnes of nickel ore sailed close to a tropical storm with a maximum wind speed of 40 knots while en route. The vessel eventually capsized and sank.

Twelve crew members of the stranded cargo vessel MV Kanchan were saved successfully by the ship MV Hermeez, on 21th July.

17 passengers are missing as a ship sank off Liberia, on the night of 17-18 July.

Three decades after the sinking of the ferry Estonia on September 28th 1994, authorities from Estonia and Sweden have started new investigations on the wreck.