Foreign Merchant Ships under Detention in UK Ports

Ships detained in February
2006

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03/02/2006 - Falmouth
SARUNA (General Cargo vessel) 5,983 GT
7906136
Panama
Sammarina Shipping
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
Detained for 28 days for non-operational lifeboats, hatches not watertight, navigation charts not corrected, numerous inoperative fire dampers, insufficient engine room cleanliness and a complete breakdown of the ship’s safety management systems. The vessel is still at Falmouth having been re-detained as dangerously unsafe following main engine failure whilst attempting to leave Falmouth after the original detention.


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05/02/2006 - Newport
NATCHA NAREE (Bulk Carrier) 13,720 GT
8408014
Thailand
Great Circle Shipping Agency
Class NK
Detained for 5 days for unsatisfactory fire and boat drills, ISM deficiencies, lack of emergency preparedness, lack of maintenance of ship’s equipment and radio deficiencies.


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14/02/2006 – Immingham
BAROY (Refrigerated Cargo Vessel) 1,926 GT
7383114
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Hammerfest Kyssttransport.
Det Norske Veritas
Detained for 6 days as additional verification audit required by the classification society had not been carried out.  Also detained for lack of on board records of maintenance of life saving apparatus and other critical equipment, and lack of familiarisation and training records for officers on board.


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15/02/2006 – Briton Ferry
ARAS III (General Cargo) 1,939 GT
8211198
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Transoptimal-Rostov Ltd.
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
Still under detention at the end of February for a substandard fire drill, being unable to demonstrate the lowering of the lifeboat and for 6 major ISM non-conformities.


The ARRAS III alongside at Briton Ferry, South WalesARAS III

The failed attempt to lower the ARAS III's lifeboatFailed lifeboat launch

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15/02/2006 – Immingham
WILLOW (General Cargo) 498 GT
8310841
Panama
Rain Shipping
Phoenix Register of Shipping
Detained for 3 days with poop deck ventilators badly corroded and holed (unable to make watertight) and an inoperative oily water separator.


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15/02/2006 – Seaham
RONA (General Cargo) 2,351 GT
7639630
Belize
Baltec Ltd
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
Detained for 5 days for an inoperative fire pump, fire main holed by corrosion and no evidence that known structural defects were reported to the company.


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15/02/2006 - Tilbury
EDCO (Bulk Carrier) 22,530 GT
7825576
Egypt
MISR Edco Shipping
Det Norske Veritas
Detained for 12 days for advanced corrosion between port ballast tanks, all fire pumps being inoperative and a number of quick closing valves also failing to operate.


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21/02/2006 - Tilbury
NAVISSION LAKER (Bulk Carrier) 18,047 GT
8105260
Panama
Cosco Shanghai Ship Management
Bureau Veritas
Detained for 14 days for a holed fire main, refractory collapse in main boiler uptake, tank vent pipe sounding pipe holed and no hot water for crew.


Repairs to the NAVISION LAKER's ballast tank pipework under way at TilburyRepairs to the NAVISION LAKER's fire main and ballast tank pipework

A section of the NAVISION LAKER's severely corroded fire main prior to replacement.Section of the corroded fire main prior to replacement

Detentions carried over from
previous months


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27/01/2006 – Tyne
STELLA IV (General Cargo) 657 GT
6523107
Comoros Islands
Not listed
None
This vessel is the former Estonian flagged GLORIA which has been under detention since August 2003 with multiple structural deficiencies.  The detention was reissued upon the vessel’s renaming and transfer to the Comoros Islands register. The vessel is still under repair by its current owners.


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03/11/2005, Falmouth
GALINA (General Cargo) 257 GT
7630385
Georgia
A. M. Yagur
INCLAMAR
Still under detention at the end of February, although the vessel was sold to new owners whilst under detention has since left Falmouth under tow. 7 recorded deficiencies (4 detainable).  Detained for auxiliary engines and associated systems being in variously unsafe, defective and unreliable; other machinery and electrical devices and systems being similarly unreliable or unsafe; health, hygiene and sanitary conditions a risk to crew; loose floor plates and other accident hazards on board.


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05/09/2000 – Lowestoft
OLIVER FELIX (Tug) 144 GT   
5281128
Honduras
General Maritime Ltd, London
International Naval Surveys Bureau - INSB
Originally detained in Lowestoft in 2000 with 50 recorded deficiencies. Magnetic Compass deviation card missing, daylight signals missing, excess oil in engine room constituting a fire hazard, ship’s certificates expired. The vessel was allowed to sail on a one-off voyage to Southampton under a load line exemption, where she was sold for refurbishment.  The new owners obtained a further load line exemption for a single voyage to Plymouth where the OLIVER FELIX remains under detention and is still undergoing repair.