incident photos

Pirates set a cargo ship ablaze yesterday after an unsuccessful hijacking attempt. The International Maritime Bureau reports that pirates aboard two skiffs

Two crew members where killed and over a dozen people injured by a fire aboard the cruise ship Nordlysand. The fire is believed to have ignited in the engine

Three people, including the chief mate, were killed Saturday in a fire that broke out on the passenger ferry M/V ISLAND FASTCRAFT 1, just miles from its

Photo Seanews Turkey A Latvian captain has been placed under arrest after his ship ran aground, allegedly while the man was drunk.  The cargo vessel ALVA was

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Jeff Fry Two Carnival cruise ships were involved in a minor collision in the Port of Key West Tuesday morning causing only minor

U.S. Coast Guard photos This week’s incident photos are of the 89-foot passenger ferry Royal Miss Belmar grounded in the U.S. Virgin Islands on July 4,

This weeks incident photos come from the Columbia River on the Washington-Oregon border where the 433-foot flat-deck barge Davy Crockett continues to be

A minor ship emergency in the port of Odessa last week. The “brakes” of the Rhl Fidelitas failed and it crashed into the coastal ship and shore

On April 22nd, the EU NAVFOR French warship FS GUÉPRATTE was tasked to patrol the East coast of Somalia as part of her counter-piracy duties on Operation

The Journal of Commerce has this report of a tragic collision between two vessels transiting Germany’s Kiel Canal in dense fog. Two seamen were knocked

Partial collapse of the platform Flotel Jupiter – April 12, 2011 Name: JUPITER 1 Flag: Mexico Rig Type: semi-submersible platform IMO No.: 8757283 Owner

On April 9, the EUNAVFOR Finnish warship FNS Pohjanmaa obliterated a dhow used by a suspected pirate group.  18 suspected pirates have been detained. Below,

This weeks incident photo comes to us via Ben Strong of Amver. If not for the partnership between Pole Star and Amver the Greek ship Vanessa A would never

According to this report from the popular European shipping magazine Shipgaz, the timber-laden M/V Mirabelle had just one officer on watch when the vessel

Photo By Ronald On November 11th the tug Fairplay 22 got underway to assist the ferry Stena Britannica in her transit to the Stena Terminal, Hoek van Holland,

Fryderyk Chopin-Tall-Training-Ship The Fryderyk Chopin lost both its masts when it was hit by gale-force winds about 100 miles southwest of the English coast

(Photo: Dutch Coastguard/AP) At approximately 04:56 UTC this morning (October 12, 2010) the Greek flagged tanker, Mindoro, collided with Cyprus flagged

Early Sunday morning, the 100-foot former crab boat F/V Arctic Dawn caught fire while the vessel was moored just south of the Ballard Bridge in the Lake

The incident is not recent this week but the photograph is. The talented photographer of this image, Rickard Gillberg, tells us more about the ill-fated cargo

RIP George H.W. Bush  Former President George H.W. Bush apparently ran his 38-foot boat aground on a beach in Maine while out in fog.  According to