Year: 1996 Language: english Author: MAIB Genre: Documentation Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 201 Description: The motor tanker SEA EMPRESS loaded with a cargo of 130.018 tonnes of Forties light crude oil grounded off the Middle Channel Rocks in the approaches to Milford Haven at 2007 hrs on 15 February 1996. A pilot was on board and the vessel was entering the Haven via the West Channel. Although the main engine was stopped, put astern and both anchors dropped the vessel continued to run ahead and came to rest aground, approximately 5 cables northeast of the initial grounding position. The weather was fine and clear with a west-northwesterly force 4/5 wind.
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Sea Empress Grounding
Language: english
Author: MAIB
Genre: Documentation
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 201
Description: The motor tanker SEA EMPRESS loaded with a cargo of 130.018 tonnes of Forties light crude oil grounded off the Middle Channel Rocks in the approaches to Milford Haven at 2007 hrs on 15 February 1996.
A pilot was on board and the vessel was entering the Haven via the West Channel. Although the main engine was stopped, put astern and both anchors dropped the vessel continued to run ahead and came to rest aground, approximately 5 cables northeast of the initial grounding position. The weather was fine and clear with a west-northwesterly force 4/5 wind.
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