Ship aground in Falmouth bay

[John Arton]

A Russian bulk carrier has dragged it's anchor and run aground in Falmouth bay.wonder if the bridge watch were asleep and did not realise they were dragging anchor or possibly they couldn't get the engine started in order to up anchor and steam to safety?
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J.A.

[Keith Tindell]

With the weather forecast today, i expect a few nervous twitches. Kt

[Red Lead Ted]

I wonder how many illegal immigrants have tried the channel crossing over the last few days because at present with the weather forecast they will never be found. Lord help them especially the kids they have no chance Terry.

[Lewis McColl]

Why call the police for this https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...cid=spartandhp


Also why sail at all if the weather is really blowing up a hoolie, There were only 50 odd passengers on board and I assume most of those were truck drivers, did they learn nothing after the SS Victoria.

[Ken Norton]

Managed to get her "off" this evening, no apparent damage, Nice one

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
I suppose as long as there are ships at sea things like this will happen, some can be avoided; some maybe not.
A piece in the Vindi News letter that I have just received.
Three Spanish unions have expressed concern over inadequate Coastguard staffing levels for vessel traffic supervision and security in the Straits of Gibraltar. They warned that numbers have fallen; while more that 115.000 ships transisted the area last year, many of them carrying large numbers of passengers or dangerous cargoes.
Cheers Des

[John Arton]

The language used by most commentators had me in stitches, using terms such as "massive ship" to describe a 16,000 ton vessel just shows how ignorant most of them were. Glad she got off with no damage or pollution but those russian built ships were built like brick out house's.
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J.A.

[john gamble]

A Russian bulk carrier has dragged it's anchor and run aground in Falmouth bay.wonder if the bridge watch were asleep and did not realise they were dragging anchor or possibly they couldn't get the engine started in order to up anchor and steam to safety?
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J.A.

Surely they could have dropped the other hook ?

[j.sabourn]

Maybe it didn’t have another anchor to drop , maybe the gypsy was out of commission or anything. One of the safety boats I was on believe it or not, had no anchors one could drop as the whole windlass was out of commission , how many years before and after it remained so I wouldn’t like to hazard a guess. My biggest fear on returning to Aberdeen every 4or 5 weeks was being blown onto a lee shore and unable to drop an anchor to limit the prospect. On a 4 knot ship would not take too much of a blow. There are ships and there are ships. JS anyone who wants to look up the history of this ship if it has one was called the Tamito off. No. 167042 Could have been tomato as far as use in an emergency would have been. But as said before it was only a platform to launch a FRC as far as the people who knew no better were concerned, they were all very similar. Certainly wouldn’t have got through its mot test. The same as most of them JWS......

[john gamble]

That's so true.And I know that it's easier said than done , but after nearly losing a hand in a trawl winch due to the gypsy having a chunk missing,I figured that if I ever had an accident due to defects that I could see , it was my own fault for being there in the first place. I left coastal tankers after refusing to dump the slop tanks overboard to save on tank washing , how ridiculous is it that companies want to save time ,when as we all know nothing is guaranteed at sea,save that time , and then have to wait hours or days for tides ,weather,dockers strikes,petty officials,you name it. we've all had it.