Nave Andromeda

[Sea-Fever]

5 NM restriction zone around this vessel according to Sky news.....somewhere near the IoW. Cops are on the scene.

5NM ???

 

[Sea-Fever]

Marine traffic has it on the move heading northbound just east of Shanklin.

 

[Sea-Fever]

Past track looks odd around the coast of Brittany, but then I'm not sure what it is meant to look like.

 

[Sea-Fever]

IoW radio reporting attempted hijack..

BREAKING: 'Hijack' Attempts On Ship Moored Off Isle Of Wight

 

[boomerangben]

Sky news banging on about the ship zig zagging. A ship that size doesn’t zig zag by the 100m ais is showing. It is stopped. That’s as good as stopped you can get without mooring or anchoring ?

 

[doug748]

Bulk load of economic migrants or terrorists, is a possibility. May have been taken a good while ago.

There was a story by Hammond Innis, The Wreck of the Mary Deare.

 

[LittleSister]

This Guardian article says unconfirmed reports of attempted takeover of the ship by stowaways.

attempted-hijacking-of-oil-tanker-reported-off-isle-of-wight

 

[DJE]

A job for the Royal Marines I would have thought.

 

[Blue Sunray]

A job for the Royal Marines I would have thought.

Well they can bloody well wait for Monday.

 

[Giblets]

A job for the Royal Marines I would have thought.

Don't you mean the boys from Poole?

 

[Blue Sunray]

Don't you mean the boys from Poole?

Well their lift is on its way:

 

[oldharry]

According to IoW radio, there are 7 Nigerian stowaways on board. The exclusion zone is 3 miles, and 'armed units' are setting up base at the PortsmouthNaval Dockyard. The ship was due to dock this morning, but was refused entry.

 

[Sea-Fever]

See the historic track to the West of Ushant?? Not exactly prime anchoring location is it....?

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

Greek ship flying Liberian flag of convenience.

 

[Wansworth]

Greek ship flying Liberian flag of convenience.

Fairly standard

 

[DJE]

Don't you mean the boys from Poole?

Tanker stowaways: ‘Hijacking’ ends after special forces storm ship
Yep.

 

[Stemar]

My nasty suspicious mind is wondering how long those seven people could hide out on a tanker without someone noticing, and how long the authorities have known.

And how much they paid to whom

 

[sailorman]

She is now berthed in Soton rather than Fowley, so i assume plod SOCO are working

 

[Pete7]

Photo of the ships suggests she is empty, but having just arrived from West Africa, shouldn't be full of crude oil?

Perhaps its already been into Fawley and now the stowaways are trying to flee the UK before Brexit

 

[pawl]

Photo of the ships suggests she is empty, but having just arrived from West Africa, shouldn't be full of crude oil?

Perhaps its already been into Fawley and now the stowaways are trying to flee the UK before Brexit

Ooh, I wonder it there's anymore room for me!