Boat trapped between Ship and Quay at Mistley!

[Habebty]

Man and dog rescued from trapped boat at Mistley Quay.....
Man and dog rescued from trapped boat at Mistley Quay

 

[Yorkshire Exile]

Man and dog rescued from trapped boat at Mistley Quay

Your link doesn't seem to work, one above might?

NO IT DOES NOT! Any way,intriguing story when I eventually got there.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Try this: Man and dog rescued from trapped boat at Mistley Quay

 

[PaulRainbow]

I suspect we will find that the BBC story is inaccurate. I believe that the small motorboat was there before the ship, got into difficulties and the owner and his dog rescued. I suspect the ship arrived later and had no choice but to dock at the quay. The motorboat sank at some point.

 

[justanothersailboat]

This sounds awful but is also a bit puzzling. I agree the reporting has to be missing something, but it usually is so no surprises there. If you had to emergency-stop on a ship dock with a dead engine / broken steering etc., something else would have to go wrong on top of that to prevent you warping along off the end of it... shame about the boat but at this point I'm more worried about the man.

 

[ex-Gladys]

A local that I know says that the owner of the mobo "has disappeared"

 

[PaulRainbow]

A local that I know says that the owner of the mobo "has disappeared"

This seems to be the case, i received the following from someone at HHA (sent to me at "my" sailing club), if anyone has any information i could pass it along:

"I am trying to locate the owner of an unknown motor boat which got into difficulties at Mistley quay yesterday evening. The owner and his dog were safely rescued by the Fire Service but we have since been unable to reach him. The boat has now sunk alongside the berths at Mistley quay and will need to be removed before the next ship arrives to work on the berth (next week).

Please can you contact me if you recognise the boat (pictures attached), and if the owner is known – please can you ask him to contact me directly.

If nothing is heard or seen from the owner by the beginning of next week, we will be obliged to use our powers under the Harwich Harbour Act 1974 section 14 to raise and remove the wreck.

Many thanks for your attention and assistance with this matter."

 

[ianc1200]

Could be entirely wrong, but looking what's happened on the Thames & the canals - people buy boats cheaply, find areas where to live on them for free. The boats are never insured, and have no maintenance done. Eventually they sink (get crushed by a coaster) and the "owner" disappears. Leave council/waterways authority to pay £000's to recover vessel and clean up mess. Whether that's the case here, it's certainly been happening a lot on the inland waterways.

 

[justanothersailboat]

That's definitely a problem - on canals and mudflats and such. But you'd have to be in a very odd way to go for the coaster dock as an abandonment plan. It's not like there aren't loads of places around there you could (unfortunately) beach and wander off without needing rescuers' help to get out of the boat, or attracting the kind of attention the coaster dock does. All very odd.