Wansworth
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A cargo ship turned upside down whilst loading in Castellón,Spain,search on going for personnel,all you can see of the large ship is the bottom,propellor and propellor in the bow,which I have forgotten the name of.
Ship turned trurtle In Spain
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Rappey
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Wow. Had to find my own link though ..
Container Feeder Capsizes at the Pier at Port of Castellón
Container Feeder Capsizes at the Pier at Port of Castellón
Wansworth
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Sorry not computer savvy......yet?
Rappey
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Your post brought it to the attention of whoever is interested 
What device (android, apple, windows) are you using ?
Posting links is usually quick and easy to learn.
What device (android, apple, windows) are you using ?
Posting links is usually quick and easy to learn.
Bajansailor
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These 'little' feeder container ships have a hard life - impossibly tight schedules usually, long hours for the crew who are invariably knackered, usually short routes, so in and out of ports frequently, and not much time for sleep.
Add to this how they have to rely on the declared weights of the containers as being accurate - and very often shippers will overload containers and try to get away with it.
I had a survey job some years ago on one such vessel - this was just annual flag state inspection, not damages - and the Master was telling me how recently they had been loading containers on board using the info supplied by the shore personnel. And they reached their loadline while there were still containers waiting on the dock to load - but in theory this should not have happened if the declared weights had been accurate. The Master was not a happy chap, to put it mildly.
Here is another well documented case of a feeder container ship capsizing - the Angeln had just departed from Vieux Fort in St Lucia, bound for Barbados eleven years ago. As she came around the corner into the channel between St Lucia and St Vincent she capsized. Remarkably all of the crew on board were rescued.
Here is the RINA report on the Angeln :
Container ship Angeln Accident report
I think that divers in St Lucia have another dive site, so they must be delighted about that.
Salvage Engineering for M/V ANGELN Capsizing - JMS Naval Architects
MV Angeln - Wikipedia
Edit - seems like she is not a dive site - she was raised and then scuttled in deep water.
Maritime Journal | Sunken boxship in shipping lane resolved
This must have cost a fortune (paid for by St Lucia) - and I am sure that the local dive operators were disgruntled.
Surely a wreck buoy would have sufficed, along with Notices to Mariners etc, informing of the wreck?
Add to this how they have to rely on the declared weights of the containers as being accurate - and very often shippers will overload containers and try to get away with it.
I had a survey job some years ago on one such vessel - this was just annual flag state inspection, not damages - and the Master was telling me how recently they had been loading containers on board using the info supplied by the shore personnel. And they reached their loadline while there were still containers waiting on the dock to load - but in theory this should not have happened if the declared weights had been accurate. The Master was not a happy chap, to put it mildly.
Here is another well documented case of a feeder container ship capsizing - the Angeln had just departed from Vieux Fort in St Lucia, bound for Barbados eleven years ago. As she came around the corner into the channel between St Lucia and St Vincent she capsized. Remarkably all of the crew on board were rescued.
Here is the RINA report on the Angeln :
Container ship Angeln Accident report
I think that divers in St Lucia have another dive site, so they must be delighted about that.
Salvage Engineering for M/V ANGELN Capsizing - JMS Naval Architects
MV Angeln - Wikipedia
Edit - seems like she is not a dive site - she was raised and then scuttled in deep water.
Maritime Journal | Sunken boxship in shipping lane resolved
This must have cost a fortune (paid for by St Lucia) - and I am sure that the local dive operators were disgruntled.
Surely a wreck buoy would have sufficed, along with Notices to Mariners etc, informing of the wreck?
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