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UK Ship Register Accepts Its Largest Container Ship
The UK ship register has officially welcomed CMA CGM ANDROMEDA on to the UK Ship Register this weekend, when she docked at Southampton. The vessel is the largest Container ship on the UK register at 131,332 GT, 11,356 TEU. Overall she is the second largest...
Fishing Skipper Falsifies Reports of His Own Death
A fishing skipper invited for interview by the Marine and Fisheries Agency (MFA) over allegations of fishing offenses pretended he was dead – and then wrote his own obituary and had it published in a trade newspaper. But an MFA fisheries inspector...
Drunk Master of the Elousa Trikoukiotisa Chemical Tanker Sentenced in U.K. Court
At Snaresbrook Crown Court today, Captain Gonchar Volodymyr aged 53, was sentenced to two months in jail, and will be deported upon completion of the sentence after pleading guilty to being the Master of a ship whilst being over the alcohol limit.U.K. Coastguard Ocean Going Towing Vessel Takes Russian Timber Carrier to Safety
Early this morning the Captain of the Russian general cargo vessel ‘Mekahnik Semakov’ reported problems to Stornoway Coastguard that he had difficulties with their engines and in particular their fuel oil. At the time a sister ship the ‘Mekhanik...England’s Portland Coastguard Involved in Two Separate Drinking Related Recovery Incidents
Portland Coastguard were involved in two separate recovery incidents last night where drinking alcohol could have ended in fatality statistics. At 23.00 a call to the Operations Room at Weymouth alerted the emergency service to a man who had been recovered...Three Divers in the U.K. Suffer the Bends in Separate Incidents
Three divers were picked up this afternoon by the U.K.’s Lee-on-Solent based Coastguard helicopter in two separate incidents, when the divers began complaining on board their dive vessels of signs associated with decompression sickness.Man Jailed for Assault on a Coastguard Helicopter Winch Man
This week at Stornoway Sheriff Court, Aaron Moore 27 of Portnaguran, Isle of Lewis was jailed for six months for assaulting a winch man from the Stornoway Coastguard helicopter. A 999 call was made to Stornoway Coastguard on 21 July this year by Mr Moore...Irish Ferry MV Ulysses Provides Lee for Stricken Yacht
At 11.30 pm last night, the Irish Ferry MV `Ulysses’ radioed Holyhead Coastguard to alert the marine emergency service that the crew they had sighted a red flare 6 miles off Holy Island, Anglesey. They could see a yacht which appeared to be signaling...
