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Improper engine check leads to engine room fire

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In its latest Safety Digest report, UK MAIB published an incident concerning a 70-minute scheduled trip, when after 10 minutes, a small coastal passenger cruiser suffered a main engine failure that resulted in an engine room fire. There were no injuries but the vessel had to be taken out of service.

The Incident

In the beginning of the voyage, the master was first alerted to a problem with the port main engine when alarms sounded in the wheelhouse. The master’s initial reaction was to bring the...

https://safety4sea.com/improper-engine-check-leads-to-engine-room-fire/

Vard Opts PG Flow Solution Pumps For Yara Birkeland

  • Vard’s Brevik, Norway, shipyard has been selected to build the zero-emission, zero crew vessel.
  • The ship is with a length of 80 meters and a beam of 15 meters, and has a cargo capacity of 120 TEU.
  • It replaces 40,000 truck journeys a year, reduces NOx and CO2 emissions, and improves road safety in a densely populated urban area.
  • The vessel will gradually evolve from manned operation to fully autonomous operation by 2022.

Vard has selected liquid handling and pump specialist PG Flow Solutions...

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Carbon dioxide system didn’t activate, results to repeated efforts in handling engine room fire

The Swedish Club published its monthly safety scenario for March. In this month’s scenario, the Swedish Club describes an engine room fire that burst while the vessel was sailing. The master and the crewmembers finally put the fire out. Yet, later on it was found that only seven of thirteen CO2 bottles were released into the engine room.

The Incident

During an evening with a heavy weather of about Beaufort scale 7, the vessel voyaging was heading for the discharge port.

Suddenly, the fire alarm...

https://safety4sea.com/carbon-dioxide-system-didnt-activate-results-to-repeated-efforts-in-handling-engine-room-fire/

Leaking lube oil causes engine room fire on towing vessel

The NTSB issued an investigation report on the engine room fire and explosion onboard the towing vessel ‘J.W. Herron’ on Big Bayou Canot near Mobile, Alabama in December 2017. The report identified leaking lube oil from a propulsion diesel engine hose or tubing fitting that was ignited off an exposed hot engine surface, as the key cause of the accident.

The incident

About 1340 local time on 13 December 2017, the towing vessel J.W. Herron was shifting barges on Big Bayou Canot near Twelvemile...

https://safety4sea.com/leaking-lube-oil-causes-engine-room-fire-on-towing-vessel/

USCG responds to disabled tanker off New York

The asphalt carrier ‘Amber Bay’ suffered an engine room fire as it began to depart the New York Harbor area, at the night of Wednesday, December 19. The vessel is disabled and the United States Coast Guard is coordinating the response operations.

The 479-foot tanker with 22 crew aboard had a fire ignite in the engine room shortly before 8:00 p.m. The crew was able to quickly extinguish the fire using their installed fire suppression system.

At 8:05 p.m., the crew alerted watchstanders at Coast...

https://safety4sea.com/uscg-responds-to-disabled-tanker-off-new-york/

UK MCA: How to prevent fire in engine rooms and cargo pump rooms

The UK Maritime and Coast Guard Agency (UK MCA) reiterated IMO advice on  the prevention of fire in Engine Rooms, Cargo Pump Rooms and other high fire risk spaces, following a recent incident of fire onboard a UK flagged vessel which resulted in one fatality.

On the aftermath, the UK MAIB investigation highlighted that there were no systems in place to require the inspection of the ships low pressure fuel pipework within the planned maintenance system or Classification Society requirements,...

https://safety4sea.com/uk-mca-how-to-prevent-fire-in-engine-rooms-and-cargo-pump-rooms/

Asphalt tanker suffers engine room fire off Nantucket

The Hong Kong-flagged tanker ‘Feng Huang AO’, with 21 crew aboard, suffered a fire ignite in its engine room while transiting 57 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, in the Atlantic Ocean, on 5 October early morning, the US Coast Guard informed.

The US Coast Guard and Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Special Operations Command firefighters and Rescue Paramedics conducted a joint safety examination of the disabled 479-foot asphalt tanker on Monday afternoon.

The ship is loaded with...

https://safety4sea.com/asphalt-tanker-suffers-engine-room-fire-off-nantucket/

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