Completed Preliminary Examinations 2009

The following preliminary examinations have been completed. Having considered all the evidence in each case, the Chief Inspector has decided that there are no other safety issues to be learnt from the accident which require further investigation and publication of a report.
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Merchant vessels

Vessel Name Vessel Type Accident Type Accident Date
Goole Star Self-powered barge Accident to person 3/12/09
Velox General cargo ship Accident to person 1/09/09
Sea Charente General cargo ship Cargo hold fire 2/10/09
Silves General cargo ship Contact with berth 7/09/09
Stolt Petrel Oil product/ Chemical Tanker Contact with Lock gate 4/07/09
King Everest Tanker Contact with buoy and subsequent snagging of the buoy's cable by the rudder horn 9/07/09
Celtica Hav General Cargo Grounding 29/10/08
Svitzer Constance Voith Schneider Tractor Tug Contact 9/03/09
Isle of Arran Roro Passenger ferry Grounding 28/03/09
COSCO Hong Kong Container - fully cellular Grounding 20/03/09
Mornes Self Discharging bulk carrier Contact 11/03/09
Saline General cargo Fire in the approaches to Humber estuary. 6/02/09
Sinegorsk General cargo Listing/ loss of timber deck cargo 19/01/09
Ropax 1 Ro-ro vessel Contact in Algeciras Bay 13/12/08
Queen Elizabeth 2 Grounding in Stanswood Bay in the Solent. Grounding 11/11/08
Haven Harrier Accident to person on board pilot boat Accident to person 27/11/08
Herm & Nantewas Container feeder vessel & Triple-rig Trawler Collision 18/09/08

 

Fishing vessels

Vessel Name Vessel Type Accident Type Accident Date
Port of Ayr Fishing Vessel Flooding and machinery failure 29/10/2009
Noronya Fishing Vessel Man overboard resulting in one crewman missing, presumed dead. 9/10/2009
Transcend Fishing Vessel Fv flooded and foundered 93 miles NE of Lerwick. All crewmembers were rescued. 3/06/09
Golden Promise Fishing Vessel Contact 10/04/09
Mercurius Fishing Vessel Man Overboard 18/02/09
Niamh Aine Shelter deck Potter Grounding 22/03/09
Jubilee Star Twin-rig prawn trawler Capsize and foundering 11/02/09
Cantara Long liner Fatal Man overboard 24/11/08
Nantewas & Herm Triple-rig Trawler & Container feeder vessel Collision 18/09/08
Louisa Trawler Fishing vessel foundered, one fatality 10/11/08

Leisure Craft

Vessel Name Vessel Type Accident Type Accident Date
Un named Laser Stratos dinghy Sailing dinghy Capsize leading to crew entrapment - 2 fatalities. 12/07/09
Ocean Ranger Small Commercial Motor Boat Accident to persons 14/04/09
Loch Awe Dinghy Open Boat Vessel lost with 4 fatalities 21/03/09