Oops! three ship collision in Channel

" passed between a tug and a smaller vessel it was towing, causing serious damage. "

Now I would have thought that even Liberians learned to skip when they were kids...:D
 
KellysEye said:
On radar I once picked a tug towing a barge near the Spanish coast that was four miles long, quite why I don't know.
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Possibly the barge had a dangerous cargo, or maybe it just smelled bad....
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....perhaps it was an onion bargee?....:D
 
Downsman said:
" passed between a tug and a smaller vessel it was towing, causing serious damage. "

Now I would have thought that even Liberians learned to skip when they were kids...:D
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Before we rush to blame flag of convenience vessels and their crews I wonder if the tow was properly identified. Once when sailing off the Turkish coast I saw a vessel that looked like a trawler pass very slowly from port to starboard, about a mile ahead of me. I was making good speed and noticed as I approached the point where the vessel had crossed that it was not very far on my starboard side. Looking around with binoculars I discovered that the reason it was only making about 1 or 2 knots was that it was towing a fish farm, which was almost submerged and completely unmarked, nor was the towing vessel displaying any day shapes. I had to make a sharp turn to port to avoid going over the towing hawser which was beneath the surface because of the slow speed.
 
Norman_E said:
Before we rush to blame flag of convenience vessels and their crews I wonder if the tow was properly identified. Once when sailing off the Turkish coast I saw a vessel that looked like a trawler pass very slowly from port to starboard, about a mile ahead of me. I was making good speed and noticed as I approached the point where the vessel had crossed that it was not very far on my starboard side. Looking around with binoculars I discovered that the reason it was only making about 1 or 2 knots was that it was towing a fish farm, which was almost submerged and completely unmarked, nor was the towing vessel displaying any day shapes. I had to make a sharp turn to port to avoid going over the towing hawser which was beneath the surface because of the slow speed.
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Dover CG would have been reporting this vessel & tow
 
VicS said:
Was Galatea one of the vessels involved in the collision attending to asses the situation or assisting the lifeboat tow the others back to port.
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A collision involving three vessels in the English Channel has caused "serious damage", the coastguard said.
Lifeboats were called at about 03:00 GMT after the crash, about nine miles off the coast at Dungeness in Kent.
A Liberian-registered cargo ship, heading towards Genoa in Italy, passed between a tug and a smaller vessel it was towing, causing serious damage.
No-one was injured in the crash. Lifeboat crews remain with the tug and towed boat.
The Dungeness lifeboat was initially sent to the scene, but has been replaced by the Dover lifeboat and the Galatea, a Trinity House vessel, which are trying to tow the boats back to shore.
The crew of the tug is still on board, the coastguard said.
The cargo ship is now anchored at Newhaven.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch is at the scene.
 
The Galatea is the Trinity House flagship and their largest vessel used for buoy maintenance etc all round the coast, she is based at Harwich, but is deployed where needed.

Sometimes after a collision there might be a need to place wreck buoys, but fortunately not in this case. Perhaps she was in the vicinity and was offering assistance?
 
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