Crew Missing

2 Missing After Vessel Sinks

Two crew have gone missing from a sunken landing craft, reports Maritime Bulletin.

Landing craft sink due to stormy weather

Landing craft LADY ATHENA sank on Nov 25 off Cambari Islands in Araceli waters, Palawan, Philippines, Sulu sea, being caught in stormy weather. 15 crew were rescued, 2 are missing.

The ship reportedly, developed list, capsized, and sank. Bow ramp probably, started to leak or was seriously damaged, with incoming water flooding cargo deck and compromising the stability of the...

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‘Missing Ship Crew’ Search for the Gulf Livestock 1 Resumes

  • The Gulf Livestock 1 left New Zealand carrying 5,800 cows to Tangshan, when it  sent a distress signal while it was sailing in stormy conditions in the East China Sea as a typhoon passed the area. 
  • The rescue mission was halted temporarily due to a second typhoon.
  • The total crew included 39 from the Philippines, two from New Zealand and two from Australia.
  • The second phase of searching by the Japanese coast guard is underway.

Japanese coast guard ships resumed searching on Tuesday for a...

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Bad Weather, Sunken Cattle Ship Search Operation Suspended

  • Search for crew of sunken cargo ship suspended as second typhoon nears Japan.
  • The search was suspended due to bad weather on Saturday, when Typhoon Haishen was headed towards southwestern Japan.
  • The ship had been carrying 43 crew members and nearly 6,000 cattle.
  • Forty crew members are still missing but rescue efforts are being hampered by approach of Typhoon Haishen.
  • The Japan coastguard found a second survivor after the Gulf Livestock 1 issued a distress call as Typhoon Maysak passed through...

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VLCC With 2 Million Oil Barrels Catch Fire,1 Dead

  • A new fire broke out on a supertanker carrying about 2 million barrels of oil in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Sri Lanka.
  • One seafarer died in the explosion, while 22 of the 23 crew onboard rescued.
  • Flames had spread to the New Diamond’s bridge, but there was no damage to the cargo area.
  • One Philippine national was injured and another was missing following the fire.
  • Two Russian anti-submarine ships and four Indian ships were assisting in the operation.

Blaze breaks out again on oil...

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Tug Towing Mauritius Disaster Ship Sinks, 2 Dead, 2 Missing

Port tug SIR GAETAN collided with barge when she was towing in stormy weather conditions in the evening Aug 31, off Mauritius northeast coast near Poudre d’Or, writes Mikhail Voytenko for the Maritime Bulletin.

What happened?

Tug was towing an oil barge, said by all media to be loaded with oil residues from bulk carrier WAKASHIO wreck.

Tug sustained hull breaches and sank.  There were 8 crew on board, 4 escaped on a life raft (media are saying crew escaped on a lifeboat.

But there’s no place for a...

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Livestock Carrier With 43 Crew Missing After Typhoon

A livestock carrier with 43 crew members on board after a distress signal was sent from the vessel is missing, reports the Maritime Bulletin.

What happened?

The Gulf Livestock 1 was reportedly transporting cattle from Napier, New Zealand to Tangshan, China.

Reports say the Gulf Livestock 1 issued distress signal at 0145 Tokyo time Sep 2 in East China sea, some 100 nm west of Amami Archipelago, part of the Ryukyu Islands southwest of Kyushu.

There were 5,800 cattle on board.  The ship is reported to...

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Missing Crew Recovered from Sunken Dedger

  • The USCG rescued two of the six crew onboard from the Waymon L Boyd following reports of a fire in the Port of Corpus Christi at 8-12am on Friday.
  • The fire on the vessel was extinguished at 10pm on Friday after it broke apart and sank.
  • The search for the four crew members that began Friday, August 24, has ended as the United States Coast Guard was able to locate the missing crew.
  • The Coast Guard said all missing crew members have been found and the families have been notified.

US Coast Guard...

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Crew Missing from Grounded Cargo Ship!

Cargo ship sank off Ningbo with one crew missing, writes Mikhail Voytenko for Maritime Bulletin.

Cargo ships runs aground

Cargo ship Lian Hang 7 ran aground some 10 nm E of Ningbo, China, East China sea, in the morning May 30, while en route from Fujian to Zhoushan.

Hull was breached, the ship sank after mass water ingress, with bridge and upper bridge deck remaining above waterline.

Crew missing

SAR ship Dong Hai Jiu 117 arrived at disaster site in the afternoon, after some 3 hours of rescue in...

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Cargo Ship Mishap at Fujian: Seven Rescued, Two Missing

A Taiwanese cargo ship sank off the coast of the Chinese mainland province of Fujian on the night of 20th November.  Seven crew members have been rescued and two remain missing, reports Xinhuanet News.

Vessel capsized after accident

The cargo ship capsized after colliding with an unknown ship south of the Chuanshi Island in the estuary of the Minjiang River at about 10 p.m. on 20th November, said the Fujian Maritime Safety Administration.

At the time of the accident, nine crew members, including...

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