Maritime Accident Investigation

On 15 December 2020, the 14.95m crab potting vessel, Galwad-Y-Mor, disturbed a piece of unexploded ordnance on the seabed while recovering crab pots in the North Sea, approximately 22 nautical miles off Cromer, England. The ordnance detonated and the ensuing explosion threw Galwad-Y-Mor up from  the surface of the sea, causing significant crew injuries and […]

At 0636 on 4 August 2018, the UK registered container vessel ANL Wyong and the Italian registered gas carrier King Arthur collided 4 nautical miles south-east of Europa Point, Gibraltar. Both vessels were damaged but there was no pollution or injury.

That occurred during the Great East Japan Earthquake restoration work of the breakwater underwater explosion disaster.

At about 0515 on 21 November 2020, the scallop dredger Joanna C capsized and later sank south of Newhaven, England. Only one of the three crew survived.

At about 1750 on 18 January 2018, the prawn trawler Nancy Glen capsized and later sank in Lower Loch Fyne, Scotland; only one of the three crew survived.

Shortly after 1003 on 27 January 2021, the whelk potter Nicola Faith left its home port of Conwy, North Wales and headed out to its fishing grounds with three crew members on board. Their intention was to relocate eight strings of pots to fresh fishing grounds and to haul, empty and reshoot strings of pots

On July 12, 2021, about 0323 local time, the bulk carrier Jalma Topic was transiting upriver on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans, Louisiana (mile 93.5), when it lost steering and struck a barge with an office accommodation structure on the bank.1 None of the 3 persons on the office barge or 20 persons