Container ship aground

[John Arton]

A evergreen vessel has run aground after leaving Baltimore.
Not having much luck are evergreen are they.
Rgds
J.A.
https://gcaptain.com/containership-e...rward-aground/

[James Curry]

Vessels name,Ever Forward due a name change (N)Ever Astern.

[John Cassels]

Or simply Never Forward ?.

[Doc Vernon]

Ship From Same Firm That Blocked Suez Canal Runs Aground in US (voanews.com)

[j.sabourn]

Or for ever after. Amen. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Ever green may well become ever brown if enough skippers are not quick enough to change their undies.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I have found the reason, all their ships are manned by Evergreen navigators.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes Des, trust the 'Greens' to get it wrong again.
They never get anything right as far as I am aware.

[John Arton]

Going aground seems to becoming quite common these days, apart from the ever forward a cruise liner went aground leaving a port in the Dominican republic.
Strangely enough in the 41 years I was at sea I was only on one ship that went aground.
I was cadet on one of C.P's forest products ship and we would load phosphate in Jacksonville for discharge in new Westminster before loading timber and forest products in B.C.
The cargo was a deadweight one and we loaded to our marks, 37feet if I remember right. Prior to sailing we were given written notice that the minimum channel depth was 40 feet.
Sailor down river we had to slow down to pass a dredger working on a straight stretch with its spoil pipe leading astern of it dumping it's spoil further down river. After passing the dredger we speeder up and shortly after clearing the dredger we started to make a turn around a big bend in the river. The captain and pilot were concentrating on conning the ship around the bend and chatting to each other. I was watching the shore go by and noticed that despite increasing the engine speed we seemed to be slowing down and vibration was increasing. Timidly I brought this to the attention of the captain and pilot who said f*****g hell, we're aground, stop engines and double ring astern but no chance, we were well and truly stuck aground. The pilot contacted the harbour master, who apparently knew the river like the back of his hand and would know how to get us afloat again. He turned up an hour later, very over weight and had obviously being enjoying a liquid lunch. After staggering onto the bridge slumped in a corner shouting into his walkie talkie before eventually having a suspected heart attack and having to be stretchered off.
The pilot then got hold of the coast guard who organised every harbour tug to attend at the next high water where the coast guard would be taking constant soundings to tell us when exactly high water occurred. The pilot positioned all the tugs , 7 in total, around the ship and told them when he gave the order they were all to "push full". When the coast guard told us it was high water the pilot gave the order and all the tugs revved up to full power and started pushing except one that when it revved up, smoke and flames came out of its engine room and it's crew abandoned ship.
The other tugs were successful and we slid off into the channel.
Rgds
J.A.

[Graham Shaw]

In my 20 years at sea I've only (knowingly)been aground once-yes I might have 'touched the bottom' occasionally,but that was probably in Madame Suki's Red Hot Pussycat Lounge down the Motomachi in Kobe..

In the mid 70's on a U.S. Gulf/East Coast ports to Eastern Med return run with general and containers we departed the Big Easy at about 2200hrs,so I showered and grabbed a sandwich after doing aft mooring stations departure prior to my 00-04 watch.
At 23.50 on my way up to the bridge there was a bit of a lurch,the lights went out,alarms went off and the emergency gen.lights came on and the engines stopped.Oh no,I thought ,I hope we haven't had a collision-at that time there seemed to have been a lot of serious collisions,many involving fire from petroleum lighters in these Mississippi channels. Then..it was all so surreal ,halfway up the dim interior stairway from the Chartroom down to the Captain's Deck,his lovely wife flew past me and into Capt's cabin.....carrying a bottle of something-whisky I thought.
Of course ,on the Bridge all was confusion.The Captain and River Pilot were arguing on the bridge wing outside,the 3rd Mate was ashen faced and the Hong Kong QM was just stood to one side of the wheel,looking,well, suitably inscrutable.The third mate said we're aground-and we certainly were- a quarter of a mile outside the starboard side of the buoyed channel about 6 miles down from New Orleans. I know-I had to verify that position.
It wasn't engine failure,or helmsman error ,but pilot error and therefore of course our captain's responsibility..VTMOPA -Vessel To Master's Orders and Pilot's Advice as we always duly note in the Deck Log/Movement Books.

It took 22 hours and 14 tugs before we eventually became 'unstuck' from that Mississippi mud pie and proceeded with all haste to our next port,in Mobile,Alabama, the Chippy,Bosun and cadets carefully and frequently checking tank soundings all the way.

Divers in Mobile ascertained setting up of various shell plating and slight prop.damage ,to be rectified at Dry Dock in Genoa.Representatives of the US Coast Guard,Pilotage Authority -and our Marine Super were there- he looked more grumpy than usual after a quick flight out fronm London.and the reports and recriminations from all of us were disseminated with the result-Captain and U.S.Pilot in trouble and sent packing.Someone in his report (not me) had witnessed a bit of drinking going on during the pilotage between Capt,Captain's wife and Pilot and reported it...Apparently the drinking session had started in the afternoon in the Captain's cabin prior to departure

Rather sad for the Captain's wife and their two teenage sons,as they had only just joined the ship a fortnight or so earlier in Miami,and it was the boys' first trip to sea during their school holidays. We later learned that the Captain had had similar problems with his drinking in other companies.
A nice guy though otherwise,but a liability when you rely on the 'top dog' to be sober at all times .

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