Foreign Merchant Ships under Detention in UK Ports

Ships detained in March
2006

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02/03/2006 - Grimsby
PORSOY (Refrigerated Cargo Vessel) 1,980 GT
7521936
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Hammerfest Kyssttransport
Det Norske Veritas

7 deficiencies in total, previously detained in the UK in January 2006, detained on this occasion for 9 days for invalidity of ISM Safety Management Certificate and withdrawal of ISM Document of Compliance from the vessel’s management company.


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06/03/2006 – River Tees
MEDON (General Cargo Vessel) 2,481GT
7008609
Russian Federation
Transintershipping Russia
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

9 deficiencies in total, detained for 4 days with bridge deck head and bulkhead between No. 2 and No.3 hatch corroded through and extensive corrosion to accommodation bulkhead and CO2 room at main deck level.


Advanced corrosion to one of the MEDON's vents at deck level

Corroded vent on deck

A further vent damaged by corrosion

Additional corrosion to vents on deck

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08/03/2006 – Grangemouth
HAMBURG EXPRESS (Container Ship) 3,466 GT
8913772
Denmark
H & I Intercon
Germanischer Lloyd

10 deficiencies in total, detained for 1 day with leakage between No. 2 (stbd) fuel and No. 3 (stbd) ballast tanks and an inoperative oily water separator.


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09/03/2006 – Par
RMS SETLARK (General Cargo) 1,281 GT
8223127
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Vista Shipping Agency, Tallin
Germanischer Lloyd

Detained for 1 day with 6 deficiencies in total, 2 detainable: thick oil in the engine room bilges and inoperative oily water separator.


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09/03/2006 – Falmouth
SARUNA (General Cargo) 5,983 GT
7906136
Panama
Sammarina Shipping
Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

Detained in Falmouth the previous month with 20 deficiencies, released and further detained for 6 days when main engine failed during the vessel’s departure. Detained with inoperable main engine and starting arrangements. The vessel again failed to clear Falmouth Harbour upon release from the 2nd detention and was detained once more on 15th March. The ship was sufficiently repaired by 5th April, following flag state ISM audit, for the MCA to permit a single voyage to a Romanian repair yard for further work.  On this occasion the vessel sailed successfully.


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18/03/2006 – Greenock
PHILIPP (General Cargo) 2,567 GT
7725788
Antigua and Barbuda
Dohle IoM Ltd
Germanischer Lloyd

Detained for 1 day with 2 deficiencies, both detainable: oily water mixture stored in aft peak tank with direct overboard connection and inability to show that vessel oil filtering system meets requirements specified on IOPP certificate.


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24/03/2006 - Peterhead
FAIRPLAY (General Cargo) 1,834 GT
7116872
Dominica
Uniship, Riga, Latvia
INCLAMAR

Detained for 4 days with 1 deficiency, No. 2 hatch not watertight.  Vessel permitted to sail to Riga in Latvia for permanent repairs after temporary repairs to the hatch.


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

After more than 4 months under detention and a change of ownership, the vessel finally released for a single voyage under tow, and left Falmouth on 6th March.  The GALINA was originally detained with 7 recorded deficiencies, of which 4 were detainable, namely unsafe, defective and unreliable auxiliary engines and associated systems; 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 remained under detention and was still undergoing repair at the end of March.