"oil. A full scale emergency plan was activated by the authorities. News of the grounding was first reported at 21:18 on the BBC's Nine O'Clock News – just over an hour after she ran aground. Over the next few days, efforts to pull the vessel from the rocks continued. Tugboats were drafted in from the ports of Dublin, Liverpool and Plymouth to assist with the salvage operation. The ""Sea Empress"" disaster occurred in Britain's only coastal national park and in one of only three UK marine nature reserves. The tanker ran aground very close to the islands of Skomer and"
"and converted from an oil tanker to bulk carrier. In 2012, she was renamed for a fifth time and is currently known as ""Wind 3"". She remains prohibited from entering Milford Haven and has not visited Pembrokeshire since 1996. Sea Empress oil spill The ""Sea Empress"" oil spill occurred at the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway in Pembrokeshire, Wales on 15 February 1996. The ""Sea Empress"" was en route to the Texaco oil refinery near Pembroke when she became grounded on mid-channel rocks at St. Ann's Head. Over the course of a week, she spilt 72,000 tons of crude"
"Sea Empress oil spill The ""Sea Empress"" oil spill occurred at the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway in Pembrokeshire, Wales on 15 February 1996. The ""Sea Empress"" was en route to the Texaco oil refinery near Pembroke when she became grounded on mid-channel rocks at St. Ann's Head. Over the course of a week, she spilt 72,000 tons of crude oil into the sea. The spill occurred within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park – one of Europe's most important and sensitive wildlife and marine conservation areas. It was Britain's third largest oil spillage and the twelfth largest in the"
"grounding of the ""Sea Empress"" at the entrance to Milford Haven in February 1996, and subsequent escape of more than 70,000 tonnes of oil off the Pembrokeshire coast. In the 2000-01 session of Parliament, he presented a Private Member's Bill in the House of Lords (the Parliament Acts (Amendment) Bill), which would have had the effect of confirming the legitimacy of the Parliament Act 1949 to address concerns raised by legal academics as to whether the use of the Act was valid. . The Bill was not passed, and Donaldson supported the legal action by the Countryside Alliance to overturn"
"a portion of its cargo of oil. In 1984, a serious explosion on a tanker being repaired in the Haven resulted in three fatalities. In 1996, it was the location of the ""Sea Empress"" oil spill, initially thought to be one of the most devastating oil tanker disasters the UK has ever seen. In the event, recovery has been surprisingly good, perhaps partly because of the very strong tides. The comparable ""Torrey Canyon"" spill in 1968, a ship which had been heading to Milford Haven, affected shores further south around southern Cornwall and northern France, was actually far more damaging."
"work in the channel. On December 2, 1885, the barque ""Sedwell Jane"" was aground at Curlew Island. On March 14, 1894, the steamer ""Melbourne"", loaded with coal, ran aground at the Double Beacon near Curlew Island. On February 18, 1930 the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's steamer ""Iron Monarch"" ran aground on a sandbank inside No.6 Beacon near Curlew Island while en route to Port Augusta. She had aboard 6,500 tonnes of coal to deliver for the use of Commonwealth Railways. After it was realized that the vessel would not float on the rising tide, tugs and barges were sent from"
"The ""Derbyshire"" was an ore-bulk-oil combination carrier built in 1976. At 91,655 gross register tons, she was—and remains—the largest British ship ever to have been lost at sea. The wreck was found in June 1994. The survey team deployed a remotely operated vehicle to photograph the wreck. A private report was published in 1998 which prompted the British government to reopen a formal investigation into the sinking. The British government investigation included a comprehensive survey by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution which took 135,774 pictures of the wreck during two surveys. The formal forensic investigation concluded that the ship sank"
"ship while it was aground. A South African tugboat, the ""John Ross"", was contracted by the firm Pentow Marine to tow the crippled tanker into the Channel where the remaining oil would be transferred to another tanker. During the tow the ""Katina P"" buckled amidships and on 26 April 1992 sank in of water, from the Mozambican coast and north-east of Maputo. It is not clear why the oil transfer was not done at an early stage of the tow, as time was obviously of the essence. The south-moving Agulhas current spread the spilled oil into Maputo Bay, the estuaries"
"RAF Angle was located on the Angle Peninsula Coast. It was operational from 1 December 1941 to the 1950s, having been used by both the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. The sheltered beach at West Angle Bay has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest; the rock pools are home to a small green starfish called ""Asterina phylactica"". The starfish was only formally identified in 1979. On 15 February 1996, the oil tanker ""Sea Empress"" grounded at the entrance to the Milford Haven Waterway, spilling 72,000 tonnes of crude oil. The coastline around Angle was severely damaged."
"with a cargo of lubricating oil and wax. There were no casualties. Clan Galbraith (ship) Clan Galbraith was a steel barque built in Port Glasgow, Scotland in 1894 for trade with Calcutta. On 22 July 1916, returning in ballast from Bristol, England after delivering oil there, ""Clan Galbraith"" ran aground at Flying Point beach, near Bridgehampton, NY, while attempting to find her way to the Ambrose Channel lightship in a heavy fog. The ship grounded about 200 feet off shore, eventually being deposited by the rising tide 50 feet off shore and in only 3 feet of water. Her distress"
"that were common amongst tankers at that time - have been dealt with. A fleet of smaller, ""river-sized"" (several thousand tonnes) ore-bulk-oil carriers have also been used for some decades on European Russia's waterways, primarily by Volgotanker. In addition to MV ""Berge Istra"" and MV ""Berge Vanga"", one of the more famous OBOs was the Derbyshire MV ""Derbyshire"" of 180,000 deadweight tonnes, which in September 1980 became the largest British ship ever lost at sea. It sank in a Pacific typhoon while carrying a cargo of iron ore from Sept-Îles in Canada to Japan. The loss of ""Derbyshire"" was found"
"registered in Bulgaria. General Grot-Rowecki The General Grot-Rowecki (IMO 8417754) is a 23,000 tonne, 198-metre, freighter. Built in 1985, she was named after Stefan Grot-Rowecki, a Polish general in the Second World War. On 13 November 2005 the ""General Grot-Rowecki"" collided with the 20,700-tonne Swedish RO-RO passenger ferry M/S ""Finnsailor"" while south-east of Gedser, Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. Both ships sustained damage and had to return to port for repairs. On 31 January 2006 she collided with the French chemical tanker ""Ece"" in the English Channel. At the time of the collision, the ""General Grot-Rowecki"" was owned by the"
"harbour. In the 1990s it was replaced by a fiberglass copy, the wooden original is now preserved in Devonport dockyard. HMS Royal William (1833) HMS ""Royal William"" was a 120-gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 2 April 1833 at Pembroke Dock. ""Royal William"" was fitted with screw propulsion in 1860. She later was lent to the Liverpool Roman Catholic Reformatory Society, who renamed her ""Clarence"". ""Clarence"" was destroyed by arson on 26 July 1899 on the River Mersey near New Ferry on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The figurehead of ""Royal William"" (in"
"(she was renamed ""Pride of Kent"" in 1987, later ""P&OSL Kent"" in 1998 and ""PO Kent"" in 2002) and continued to sail the Dover-Calais route until 2003. On 10 December 2017, the vessel ran aground in the Port of Calais during routine departure manoeuvres in high winds. The vessel was refloated at high tide with assistance from harbour tugs commandeered from the Port of Dunkirk. On 12 December 2017, the vessel made her way to Dunkirk for an emergency dry docking. She has damaged a shaft seal and gearbox, her return to service date is unknown. With the ending of"
"refloated on a higher tide. Those running aground in the Hunter included, the ""Malachite"" in 1926, the ""Minmi"" in 1930, the ""Pelaw Main"" in 1931, 1946, 1948, and 1953, ""Pelton Bank"" in 1936 and 1939,the ""Hetton Bank"" in 1948 during a fog and in 1950. , and in 1952 the ""Ayrfield,"" which went aground on a mudflat near Stockton after loading at the Dyke. Four 'sixty-milers' that serviced the Mortlake gasworks ran aground in the Parramatta River. In 1906 during a fog, the ""Duckenfield"" ran aground near Abbotsford. In 1930, the ""Pelaw Main"" coming from Hexham went aground near Cabarita"
"1896 the British steamship ""Vedra"" collided with and sank the coal-laden barge ""Andrew Jackson"". This incident had no connection with the RMS ""Umbria"", but she would become involved in an incident as a consequence of this collision. At 9 a.m. on Saturday 28 June 1896 the ""Umbria"" left her pier at the foot of Clarkson Street on the North River. After one hour she was in the ship channel near the turn into Gedney Channel, two miles (3 km) from Sandy Hook. It was here that ""Umbria"" struck the sunken hulk and became stuck fast. All day she remained stuck"
"Allcock. The song commemorates the wreck of ""Braer"", personifying the sea as the protector of the Shetland Islands. Shetlopedia.com has some very detailed information on the ""Braer"". MV Braer The MV ""Braer"" was an oil tanker which ran aground during a storm off Shetland, Scotland, in January 1993, and nearly a week later broke up during the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Braer Storm of January 1993. During the enquiry after the ship's loss, it was stated that the ship lost power due to seawater contamination of the ship's heavy fuel oil on"
"covered over a square mile. The Maumee River was closed to traffic. MV Algonorth The Algonorth is a seawaymax lake freighter built in 1970 by the Govan Division of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd. in Govan, Scotland. Her original owners were Lambert Bros. Shipping Ltd., of London, England, where she was known as the ""Temple Bar"". In 1976 her new owners, Nipigon Transport Ltd., had her hull lengthened and installed a new power plant for Great Lakes service. The ""Algonorth"" crashed into a dock in Toledo Ohio on December 15, 2007, spilling over 3,500 barrels of diesel fuel. Nearby vessel the"
"the grounding. Prior to the grounding, there were no checks to ensure fatigue was minimized by the governing authorities (AMSA). A news story claimed that the ship was attempting to take a shortcut when it ran aground. Jia Yong Jia Yong, formerly MV ""Shen Neng 1 () is a Chinese bulk carrier built in 1993 as Bestore"". She was sold in 2007 and renamed ""Shen Neng 1"". In 2010, she ran aground off Great Keppel Island, Australia spilling oil into Great Barrier Reef waters. She was built as ""Bestore"" by Sanoyas Hishino Meisho in 1993 at long overall, with a"
"SB Hibernia The SB ""Hibernia"" was a 75-ton spritsail Thames barge built in Greenhithe, Kent in England in 1906, and which was wrecked on the North Sea coast at East Runton during the night of 9/10 November 1937. Her crew of three were rescued by the Cromer lifeboat. The sailing barge was a sister to the ""Cambria"" which has been restored to full sailing usage, by the Cambria Trust. Built alongside the ""Hibernia"", and identical in all respects, the ""Cambria"" was the last spritsail barge to operate commercially in the United Kingdom. The ""Hibernia"" was owned by F. T. Everard"
"Aegean Sea tanker oil spill The ""Aegean Sea"" tanker oil spill was a spill that occurred on 3 December 1992 when the double-bottomed Greek-flagged oil tanker, ""Aegean Sea"", en route to the Repsol refinery in A Coruña, Spain, suffered an accident off the Galician coast. The ship had successfully passed all required tests and revisions. The accident occurred during extreme weather conditions and affected the Galician coast resulting in ecosystem damage, as well as damage to the fishing and tourist industries in A Coruña. The captain and pilot were found to be criminally liable and the shipowner took on much"
"English Channel to serve the Dover to Calais route. This move, however, never materialised, and ""Stena Adventurer"" was sold to Agapitos Express Ferries of Greece. ""Stena Adventurer"" was renamed ""Express Aphrodite"". MS Masarrah MS ""Masarrah is a ferry originally named St. Columba"", but also known as the ""Pelican Ship"" by some. Built in 1977, at the Aalborg Shipyard in Denmark, ""St. Columba"" was originally a Sealink UK ferry, operating between Holyhead and Dún Laoghaire in the Irish Sea. She now operates between Duba and Jeddah for Namma Shipping Lines. On 31 January 1990, a fire broke out in the engine"
"these was the wreck of the ""Cambus Wallace"", a 75 m steel barque of 1534 tonnes built in 1894 at Port Glasgow. In the early morning of 3 September 1894, the ""Cambus Wallace"" ran aground in heavy seas near what was then a narrow stretch of Stradbroke Island called Tuleen. Most of the crew managed to swim to shore, but six men drowned and were buried on the beach. The ship broke up where she struck and most of the cargo was washed ashore and plundered by local residents. During the subsequent cleanup, explosives from the cargo were piled up"
"General Grot-Rowecki The General Grot-Rowecki (IMO 8417754) is a 23,000 tonne, 198-metre, freighter. Built in 1985, she was named after Stefan Grot-Rowecki, a Polish general in the Second World War. On 13 November 2005 the ""General Grot-Rowecki"" collided with the 20,700-tonne Swedish RO-RO passenger ferry M/S ""Finnsailor"" while south-east of Gedser, Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. Both ships sustained damage and had to return to port for repairs. On 31 January 2006 she collided with the French chemical tanker ""Ece"" in the English Channel. At the time of the collision, the ""General Grot-Rowecki"" was owned by the Polish Steamship Company"
"same area in A Coruña in November 2002, in which a tanker, ""Prestige"", carrying 77,000 tons of oil split into two and spilled its cargo. About 10,000 tons of oil was spilled but the sunken hull of ""Prestige"" is still leaking oil from her tanks to this day. Aegean Sea tanker oil spill The ""Aegean Sea"" tanker oil spill was a spill that occurred on 3 December 1992 when the double-bottomed Greek-flagged oil tanker, ""Aegean Sea"", en route to the Repsol refinery in A Coruña, Spain, suffered an accident off the Galician coast. The ship had successfully passed all required"
"(1999) area revealed a strong colony of freshwater shrimp, a crustacean known only to live in relatively clean water. On 27 January 2009 a BP tanker train carrying liquid fuels (diesel and heating oil) from Mossend to Riccarton was derailed near the bridge over the Stewarton to Kilmaurs road at Peacockbank Farm. Several wagons subsequently caught fire. The Annick Water was polluted, however, it escaped major contamination. Mesolithic man used the Annick as his waterway. From Bourtreehill to Dreghorn, the Annick has presented us with many artifacts dating from that time. Indeed, recent archaeological evidence from Dreghorn uncovered the oldest"
"MV Braer The MV ""Braer"" was an oil tanker which ran aground during a storm off Shetland, Scotland, in January 1993, and nearly a week later broke up during the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, the Braer Storm of January 1993. During the enquiry after the ship's loss, it was stated that the ship lost power due to seawater contamination of the ship's heavy fuel oil on 3 January. This occurred after a pipeline on the deck broke loose, allowing seawater to enter the vessel's bunker tanks via broken air vents. The loss of"
"of 1996, part of Inverlane's hull collapsed and much of the wreck was submerged by water, unfortunately making the Inverlane unsafe to dive. In a storm on January 29, 2000, what was left of SS Inverlane finally rolled over and disappeared beneath the waves for good. SS Inverlane SS Inverlane was a 8900 ton tanker, originally launched in Vegesack, Germany in December 1938. She hit a mine off the coast of South Shields on December 14, 1939. The stern section of the Inverlane still remains where the ship was struck, while the bow section was re-floated, and tugged up to"
"They discovered that A&K Shipping, a company registered in Belize, were the actual owners, but that both companies could only be traced to accommodation addresses. SAMSA eventually gave up their attempt to pursue payment, and the costs, R39 million, were borne by South Africa. MT Phoenix (1974) MT ""Phoenix"" was a tanker which went aground in heavy seas at Sheffield Beach just north of Ballito near Durban, South Africa on the morning of 26 July 2011. The vessel was on its way to India to be scrapped when it ran aground. After three attempts, it was refloated, towed and then"
"further sea trials. After a mine was dredged up by a fishing boat in 2014, ""Pembroke"" detonated the mine using a Seafox anti-mine drone. In 2015, she spent four months cooperating in operations with ships from the German, Polish, Belgian and Royal Dutch navies. During this time she located nine Second World War bombs, including a bomb in the North Sea. On 26 March, she visited the wreck site of the HMS ""Isis"" and conducted a remembrance and wreath laying ceremony. In preparation for a deployment to the Baltic Sea in April 2016, earlier that year, ""Pembroke"" took part in"
"decide. The fact is, that so far as the upkeep of the Fleet is concerned, they are entirely redundant."" The last Pembroke-built ship afloat was the hulk of the iron screw frigate , which was broken up in Belgium in 1956. In June of the same year, Admiral Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson, the last Captain-Superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard, died aged 81. Although active warships were not based in Pembroke Dock after the 1940s, and formal dockyard work ceased in 1926, the base remained an official Naval Dockyard, and retained a Queen's Harbour Master, until 2008 (one of the last 5"
"English Channel the Royal Navy requested the ship to dock in either Weymouth or the Isle of Portland (Portland Harbour) for an inspection due to suspicion of the ship carrying contraband. On 7 October 1939 the ship travelled to Portland, where captain Morée requested the ship drop her anchor off of the Shambles Sandbank as the sun was setting. By 10pm the ship struck a newly developed German magnetic mine, which had been laid by the German submarine ""U-26"" on 10 September 1939. This occurred around 2.5 miles south east of the Shambles light. The mine, which was one of"
"Rhoscrowther Rhoscrowther () was a village and former civil parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales on the south shore of the Milford Haven Waterway. The placename is Welsh and perhaps means ""crwth-player's moor"". It is part of the community of Hundleton. Much of the parish and almost all the medieval village except the church was cleared during the establishment of the BP oil terminal southwest of the village in 1961 and during the construction of the Texaco Pembroke Refinery immediately to the north in 1964. At 18:20 on 2 June 2011, a 730 cubic metre storage tank exploded killing four refinery workers"