The US Coast Guard commissioned its newest Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) into service in a ceremony in New London, Connecticut, on Thursday, March 28. Built by Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana, USCGC Melvin Bell honours the late Master Chief Petty Officer Melvin Kealoha Bell, a native...
US federal agencies as well as state and local agencies in Maryland have been deployed in response to an incident wherein a bridge collapsed after it was struck by a passing commercial vessel. The incident occurred at around 01:30 local time on Tuesday, March 26, when the Singapore-registered...
The US Coast Guard has taken delivery of a new Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) built by Bollinger Shipyards of Louisiana. The future USCGC David Duren is the first of three FRCs that will be homeported in Astoria, Oregon, as part of Sector Columbia River. This sector is responsible for...
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that flooding into the lazarette, a compartment below the main deck, or port void (empty) space likely caused the purse seining vessel Hotspur to lose stability, capsize, and sink near Nunez Rocks, Alaska, on August 2, 2022. On the...
Two people were killed while a third suffered burn injuries after a fire ignited on a container vessel at the Port of Houston in Texas on Monday, January 8. The Panamanian-flagged Stride was berthed at the Barbours Cut Container Terminal when the blaze ignited in an undisclosed portion of the ship...
The US Coast Guard, in conjunction with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), is scheduled to conduct a formal public hearing later this month to consider evidence related to the fire that occurred last year aboard the Italian-flagged Con-Ro vessel Grande Costa D’Avorio while berthed at...
Deliveries include a large rescue ship to a Chinese government agency and three flood response workboats to an Australian volunteer organisation. A future US Coast Guard cutter is launched into the water for the first time. Finally, a Maryland fire department places orders for new vessels. Large rescue ship delivered to Chinese transport ministry China […]
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The US Navy commissions a new submarine into service as the US Coast Guard and the Royal Australian Navy take delivery of new patrol vessels and a Russian border guard boat completes another series of sea trials. US Navy commissions attack submarine Hyman G. Rickover The US Navy commissioned the Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine […]
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There was a story the other day about clever Chinese car exporters who have designed a rig that will fit inside a 40-foot container that enables three cars to be transported in safety within the single box. It might not be the novelty it claims. I remember inspecting a similar system in Scandinavia...
Marine safety engineers with the US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation (MBI) recovered and transferred remaining Titan submersible debris and evidence from the North Atlantic Ocean seafloor earlier this month, the coast guard said in a press release on Tuesday, October 10. The salvage...