When the car carrier Hoegh Osaka capsized between Southampton and the I.O.W. which hazard was it trying to avoid?
"vessel. As the list increased, the ship's propeller and rudder came clear of the water. The ship grounded on the Bramble Bank off the Isle of Wight at 21:15, and settled with a list that would eventually reach 52°. According to the owners they beached the vessel intentionally on the Bramble Bank in the Solent, At 21:19 the D-class inshore lifeboat from Calshot Lifeboat Station was called out. The tugs ""Svitzer Ferriby"" and ""Svitzer Surrey"", in Southampton Water at the time, were also sent to the assistance of ""Hoegh Osaka"". Additional Severn-class lifeboats were called out from Cowes and Yarmouth,"
"appointed as salvers. A maritime exclusion zone was set up around the ship, and airspace below closed to aircraft within . An attempt to refloat the ship was scheduled for 7 January, but cancelled because more water than expected was discovered inside the vessel. The ship refloated without outside assistance later that day assisted by high tide and strong winds, taken in tow and moored approximately east at Alpha Anchorage, between East Cowes and Lee-on-the-Solent to await further salvage operations. On 22 January, ""Hoegh Osaka"" was towed in to Southampton, salvage operations having reduced the list to 5°. On 10"
"the ship was sold to Höegh Autocarriers and renamed ""Hoegh Osaka"". The port of registry is Singapore. It has IMO number 9185463 and MMSI number 563248000, and call sign is S6TY. The ship has a maximum speed of . ""Hoegh Osaka"" is owned by Höegh Autoliners and operated under the management of Wallem Shipmanagement, Singapore. On 3 January 2015 ""Hoegh Osaka"" was loaded at Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom with a ro-ro cargo of buses, construction equipment and Range Rover cars in addition to some unspecified cargo already on board. More cargo was to be loaded at Bremerhaven, Germany, its next"
"MV Hoegh Osaka Hoegh Osaka is a roll-on/roll-off car carrier ship that was built in 2000 as Maersk Wind for A P Møller, Singapore. She was sold to Höegh Autoliners (Leif Höegh & Co) in 2008 and later renamed ""Hoegh Osaka"" in August 2011. On 3 January 2015 she developed a severe list and was intentionally grounded in the Solent. Her 24 crew and a pilot were subsequently rescued. The ship is long overall ( between perpendiculars), with a beam of . She has a depth of . Her draught is . The ship is powered by a Mitsubishi 8UEC60LS"
"February, ""Hoegh Osaka"" departed from Southampton for Falmouth, Cornwall to be repaired. The ship returned to service on 20 February 2015, sailing from Falmouth via Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea headed for Bar, Montenegro. The Marine Accident Investigation Branch opened an investigation into the accident. Its report into the incident was published on 17 March 2016. The investigation found that plans for the loading of the cargo had not been changed despite the change in itinerary. No calculation of the vessel's stability had been made, a practice found to be common across many operators' fleets. The weight of cargo on"
"pumps and using their capacity of 7 tonnes per minute. Some of the straps used to secure the cargo to the deck were found not to meet regulations in force at the time, only being half as strong as they should have been. MV Hoegh Osaka Hoegh Osaka is a roll-on/roll-off car carrier ship that was built in 2000 as Maersk Wind for A P Møller, Singapore. She was sold to Höegh Autoliners (Leif Höegh & Co) in 2008 and later renamed ""Hoegh Osaka"" in August 2011. On 3 January 2015 she developed a severe list and was intentionally grounded"
"Indian Ocean and allow it to attack Japanese-controlled territory. She rendezvoused at sea on 27 March with the British force and arrived at Trincomalee, Ceylon, on 31 March. During the next two weeks, the carriers conducted intensive training and rehearsing with the fleet carrier for an attack on the port city of Sabang (Operation Cockpit) scheduled for 19 April. For this operation, ""Saratoga"" mustered 27 Hellcats, 24 Dauntlesses and 18 Avengers. The carrier launched 24 Hellcats, 11 Avengers and 18 Dauntlesses while ""Illustrious"" contributed 17 Fairey Barracuda bombers and 13 Vought F4U Corsair fighters. The attack caught the Japanese by"
"harbor entrance. The Japanese ""recognized a golden double opportunity to sink a battleship and at the same time bottle up Pearl Harbor."" The planes concentrated their attack on ""Nevada"", which continued running, bombs crashing around her and on her forward deck and superstructure. At 9:07, a second ""hail of bombs"" rained on the ship, one striking the forecastle. By 9:10, ""Nevada"" was sinking, and she was grounded on Hospital Point to avoid going down in the channel. Meanwhile, ""Hoga"", with another vessel, was assisting ""Oglala"". Damaged by the detonation of a torpedo against the cruiser , moored next to ""Oglala"","
"time was acting as the Combined Fleet's flagship. The battleships , , and , the heavy cruisers and , and the outdated armored training cruisers and were all heavily damaged and settled in shallow water. The shallow anchorage precluded the use of torpedoes. The US aircraft attempted to reduce their losses from the large number of anti-aircraft guns in the area by the use of variable time-fused bombs. The British Pacific Fleet's attacks against Osaka and targets in the Inland Sea damaged escort carrier and sank the escort ships ""No. 4"" and ""No. 30"" for the loss of four aircraft."
"the coordination of the rescue efforts. A crew member from the Yarmouth Lifeboat was winched onto ""Hoegh Osaka"" to assist with the evacuation. A Royal Air Force Westland Sea King helicopter was called out from RAF Chivenor. The National Police Air Service also sent a helicopter equipped with night vision equipment. All crew except pilot, captain and chief officer had been rescued by 00:15 on 4 January. All were evacuated at 02:09 because the vessel's list was increasing as the tide fell. The ship was carrying a cargo of 1,400 vehicles and about 70 pieces of construction equipment. Svitzer were"
"and ordered the other two ships to close to transfer his wounded men. ""Aboukir"" quickly began listing and capsized around 06:55. As ""Hogue"" approached her sinking sister, Captain Wilmot Nicholson realized that it had been a submarine attack and signalled ""Cressy"" to look for a periscope although his ship continued to close on ""Aboukir"" as her crew threw overboard anything that would float to aid the survivors in the water. Having stopped and lowered all her boats, ""Hogue"" was struck by two torpedoes around 06:55. The sudden weight loss of the two torpedoes caused ""U-9"" to broach the surface and"
"the submarine ""I-29"" attacked the Soviet freighter ""Wellen"" south-east of Newcastle, but did not cause any damage to the ship. In response, a naval force was dispatched from Sydney to attempt to locate the submarine and ships were not permitted to sail between Newcastle and Sydney for 24 hours. On 23 May ""I-29""s floatplane flew over Newcastle and Sydney searching for shipping which could be attacked by midget submarines. On the night of 31 May three Japanese midget submarines attacked shipping in Sydney Harbour. The ultimate aim was to sink the U.S. Navy Heavy Cruiser , although unsuccessful in this"
"and an auxiliary boiler room, and forcing the critical shutdown of two of her boilers, which led to ""Bismarck"" making the fateful decision to attempt to return to port. During this time the ""Bismarck"" and ""Prinz Eugen"" had been solely targeting ""Hood"" and at 06:01 she blew up and sank, with the loss of all but three of her complement of 1,419 officers and men. Following this, Captain Leach (""Prince of Wales""′s captain) gave the order to disengage, laying a heavy smokescreen to facilitate the retreat. ""Prince of Wales"" would attempt to reengage ""Bismarck"" on two more occasions, but owing"
"about a year later on 31 July 1934 when ""Otsego"", carrying some 600 cannery workers and a full cargo of canned salmon, struck a rock off Cape Mordvinof in Bristol Bay. Refloated, the badly leaking vessel was escorted by the United States Coast Guard cutters ""Ewing"" and ""Bonham"" to Dutch Harbor the following day, where her passengers and cargo were transferred to other ships. After temporary repairs, ""Otsego"" completed the voyage to Seattle under escort from the cutter ""Shoshone"", where she had about 70 hull plates repaired or replaced by Todd Corporation. In addition to her annual round trips to"
"for the invasion of Iwo Jima. Assigned duty as fire support and shore bombardment ship, ""Halligan"" departed Ulithi 10 February; and, after conducting simulated shore bombardment at Tinian, Marianas, she departed Saipan 12 February for Iwo Jima. On 17 February she served as lifeguard ship north of Iwo Jima during preinvasion air strikes. At dawn she sighted and took under fire a Japanese twin-engined bomber, which attacked the ship from the port bow. Hit repeatedly by accurate gunfire, the attacker dropped a large bomb which landed about 100 yards off the port bow and failed to explode. Burning as it"
"way to North Africa carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Cairo and Tehran Conferences. ""William D. Porter"" was reported to have been involved in a mishap while departing Norfolk when her anchor tore the railing and lifeboat mounts off a docked sister destroyer while maneuvering astern. The next day, a depth charge from the deck of ""William D. Porter"" fell into the rough sea and exploded, causing ""Iowa"" and the other escort ships to take evasive maneuvers under the assumption that the task force had come under torpedo attack by a German U-boat. Ships logs from ""William D. Porter"""
"Smoky Cape, was passing to port of USS ""LST-469"" to regain convoy position. At this time, the Japanese submarine ""I-174"" fired a spread of torpedoes at the convoy from the convoy's starboard: one torpedo struck USS ""LST-469"", and another hit ""Portmar"" almost immediately after. The volatile cargo was ignited, and the order was given to abandon ship. ""Portmar"" sank ten minutes later, with two crewmen killed. The 71 survivors were recovered by HMAS ""Deloraine"", which then took USS ""LST-469"" (which had survived the attack, but was immobilised and had suffered heavy casualties) in tow, and headed for Coffs Harbour. ""Warnambool"""
"the south to attack the canal, which was defended by the Scouting Fleet and ""Lexington"", from an unexpected direction. Although the carrier was spotted by two defending ships before she launched her air strike, her aircraft were deemed to have destroyed the canal locks. ""Saratoga"" was ""sunk"" later the same day by an airstrike from ""Lexington"". Captain Frederick J. Horne assumed command on 20 April. The following year, ""Saratoga"" and ""Langley"" were ""disabled"" by a surprise attack from ""Lexington"" in Fleet Problem X in the Caribbean. ""Saratoga"" returned the favor shortly afterward in Fleet Problem XI, further demonstrating the vulnerability"
"five. Ostedijk The Ostedijk is a Dutch cargo ship that sent out a distress call on 17 February 2007 when it was about 20 kilometers off the northwestern tip of Spain (east of Estaca de Bares) The ship was transporting 6,012 tons of a fertilizer NPK 15-15-15C from Porsgrunn in Norway to the Spanish Mediterranean city of Valencia. On the 17 February, the captain of the ship radioed that there was a ""chemical reaction"" in the ship's cargo, leading him to stop engines. The vessel was near the port of A Coruña. The Spanish authorities sent a support team to"
"gunboats were credited with keeping the ships at the bay off Okinawa safe. But a Japanese explosive speedboat slipped through. ""Bozeman Victory"" was hit at 2:10am while at anchor. ""Bozeman Victory"" hull plates were badly damaged near cargo hold #4. Six crew members were injured in the attack. Some of propeller shaft bearings were cracked in the hit, these immobilized the ship. This damage was bad, but none of the ships cargo, 6,000 tons of ammunition was damaged. The explosive speedboat may have been a Kaiten, a suicide torpedo, or Midget Submarine. On the same day kamikazes damage four destroyers,"
"Ostedijk The Ostedijk is a Dutch cargo ship that sent out a distress call on 17 February 2007 when it was about 20 kilometers off the northwestern tip of Spain (east of Estaca de Bares) The ship was transporting 6,012 tons of a fertilizer NPK 15-15-15C from Porsgrunn in Norway to the Spanish Mediterranean city of Valencia. On the 17 February, the captain of the ship radioed that there was a ""chemical reaction"" in the ship's cargo, leading him to stop engines. The vessel was near the port of A Coruña. The Spanish authorities sent a support team to look"
"a halt, another damaged ""Val"" deliberately crashed into ""Hornet""'s port side near the bow. With power knocked out to her engines, ""Hornet"" was unable to launch or land aircraft, forcing its aviators to either land on ""Enterprise"" or ditch in the ocean. Rear Admiral George D. Murray ordered the heavy cruiser to tow ""Hornet"" clear of the action. Since the Japanese planes were attacking ""Enterprise"", this allowed ""Northampton"" to tow ""Hornet"" at a speed of about . Repair crews were on the verge of restoring power when another flight of nine ""Kate"" torpedo planes attacked. Eight of these aircraft were"
"the focus on preventing of a large-scale oil spill. In addition, ""Salvage Chief"", upon her arrival, was unable to reach ""New Carissa"" with her tow gear. On 10 February, ""New Carissa"" suffered major structural failure when the hull breached near the engine room, flooding the engines with seawater (and thus disabling them). The ship's insurers declared the vessel to be a total loss. As a result, ""New Carissa"" was no longer a salvageable vessel; instead, she had effectively become a shipwreck. Since the vessel was no longer seaworthy and could not move under its own power, even if freed from"
"pilots. Even encouraging capable pilots to bail out before impact was ineffective because vital personnel were often lost when they mistimed their exits and were killed as a result. On 11 March, the U.S. carrier was hit and moderately damaged at Ulithi Atoll, in the Caroline Islands, by a ""kamikaze"" that had flown almost from Japan, in a mission called Operation Tan No. 2. On 20 March, the submarine survived a hit from an aircraft just off Japan. Purpose-built ""kamikaze"" planes, as opposed to converted fighters and dive-bombers, were also being constructed. Ensign Mitsuo Ohta had suggested that piloted glider"
"mainmast. The explosion spread flaming oil throughout the interior and across the main deck of the ship, killing 125 of the ship's crew. The hit ripped away the port outer driveshaft and the ship took a 13-degree list and lost power, communications, and steering. Astern of ""Pensacola"", ""Honolulu's"" captain chose to pass ""Minneapolis"" and ""New Orleans"" on the starboard side. At the same time, the ship increased speed to , maneuvered radically, and successfully transited the battle area without taking any damage while maintaining main battery fire at the rapidly disappearing Japanese destroyers. The last cruiser in the American column,"
"Indian Ocean and South West Pacific Areas until she became a training ship at the end of 1943. ""Saratoga"" returned to combat to protect American forces during the Battle of Iwo Jima in early 1945, but was badly damaged by kamikazes. The continued growth in the size and weight of carrier aircraft made her obsolete by the end of the war. In mid-1946, the ship was purposefully sunk during nuclear weapon tests in Operation Crossroads. The ""Lexington""-class ships were originally designed to be battlecruisers, with heavy guns, high speed, and moderate armor protection. The Navy laid down six ships of"
"Japan, the ship was preparing for the attack on the Japanese homeland. The deck was covered with fully fueled aircraft and the already bombs loaded on them. Suddenly, a Japanese plane appeared and dropped two bombs. One bomb struck the flight deck centerline, penetrating to the hangar deck, effecting destruction and igniting fires through the second and third decks, and knocking out the Combat Information Center and air plot. The second hit aft, tearing through two decks. 798 sailors and Marines were killed. It was the worst disaster the U.S. Navy had ever sustained. Miraculously, the ship did not sink,"
"the Dale was ready to get underway. While backing clear a torpedo apparently aimed at the USS Raleigh passed under the bow of the Dale and exploded on Ford Island. 0844, stopped while the U.S.S. Monaghan dropped depth charges on Japanese submarine close aboard the starboard side of the U.S.S. Curtiss. Changed speed to 25 knots and proceeded out of harbor ahead of U.S.S. Monaghan. Until the Dale neared the submarine net she did not come under the direct fire of the planes. Apparently the Japanese wished to sink a ship in the entrance, thereby blocking the harbor, as the"
"for Midway, while a smaller task force headed northward for the Aleutians to launch a diversionary raid. Carrier-based planes from the carrier struck Dutch Harbor, Alaska, on 3 June, and Japanese troops occupied Attu and Kiska islands on the 7th. During this time, ""U. S. Grant"" carried troops to Kodiak, Alaska, and Cold Bay into the summer. She narrowly escaped being torpedoed while proceeding from Seattle to Dutch Harbor in convoy on 20 July. Alert lookouts picked out the tracks of two torpedoes and evasive action enabled the ship to avoid the deadly ""fish"" which passed close aboard, from starboard"
"propulsive power. Captain Behrens requested a tow, which was undertaken by . By midnight, both ""Canberra"" and ""Houston"" were under tow toward Ulithi for repairs. – a fleet tug – assumed the tow on 16 October. Late that afternoon, one of the Japanese torpedo plane strikes from Formosa, still trying to sink the cruiser, struck ""Houston"" directly on her stern from the rear. This flooded the hangar for ""Houston""s scout planes. Evacuating all surplus sailors to the escorting ships, Captain Behrens and his damage control officer, with the aid of ""Houston's"" Executive Officer, Captain Clarence J. Broussard, kept the damage"
"was travelling up the harbour to Bedford Basin near mid-channel. Horatio Brannen, the captain of ""Stella Maris"", saw ""Imo"" approaching at excessive speed and ordered his ship closer to the western shore to avoid an accident. This incident forced ""Imo"" even further over towards the Dartmouth side of the harbour into the path of the on-coming , a French cargo ship fully loaded with a highly volatile cargo of wartime explosives. Unable to ground his ship for fear of a shock that would set off his explosive cargo, Pilot Francis Mackey ordered ""Mont-Blanc"" to steer hard to port (starboard helm)"
"scalding steam from the exploding boilers. The deck-log (page 215) of the Hinsdale has the following account: """"0549 in a position about 12 miles south-southeast of the southern tip of Okinawa the ship was hit amidships on the port side and two explosions at intervals of about one second were felt. Later investigation indicated that a Jap suicide plane, probably a Tony Kawasaki Ki-61 carrying three 132 lb. bombs hit the ship on the port side at the water line in the vicinity of frame 80. The ship was holed in three places: A seven foot hole in the engine"
"escorted convoys at the time they were attacked. The convoy escorts were not successful in detecting any submarines before they launched their attacks or counter-attacking these submarines. The last attack by a Japanese submarine off the east coast of Australia was made by ""I-174"" on 16 June 1943 when she sank the merchant ship ""Portmar"" and damaged U.S. Landing Ship Tank ""LST-469"" as they were travelling in Convoy GP55 off the New South Wales north coast. Some historians believe that RAAF aircraft searching for ""I-174"" may have sunk ""I-178"" during the early hours of 18 June, but the cause of"