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About 1530 local time, a fire started on the bridge of the oil tanker S-Trust while the vessel was docked at the Genesis Port Allen Terminal in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Fire teams from the vessel’s crew extinguished the fire about 1550. There were no injuries, and no pollution was reported. The damage to the vessel was estimated at $3 million.
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UK Marine Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published an investigation report about an incident that occurred on 24 November 2021, into the flooding and partial sinking of an inflatable migrant boat resulting in the loss of at least 27 lives in the Dover Strait.
The incident
At about 1300 on 24 November 2021, a French registered fishing vessel reported sighting bodies in the water approximately 9 nautical miles from Calais within French waters. This triggered a French search and rescue operation, with UK support. A total of 27 bodies and two survivors were reported recovered from the sea and taken to France.
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A cruise ship has safely made its way back to the United Kingdom following a tumultuous encounter with a powerful storm in the Bay of Biscay.
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A shipmaster was injured in a sea robbery incident on a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier off Singapore’s Strait of Malacca, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA).