Posted on 10/02/2015 4:50:41 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The U.S. Coast Guard has launched a search for a U.S.-flagged containership with 33 crewmembers aboard reported to be caught in Hurricane Joaquin, near Crooked Island, Bahamas.
The Coast Guard reported Friday that at approximately 7:30 a.m. Thursday, watchstanders at the Coast Guard Atlantic Area command center in Portsmouth, Virginia, received an Inmarsat satellite notification stating the 735-foot cargo ship El Faro was beset by Hurricane Joaquin while en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico, from Jacksonville, Florida. The notification said that the ship had lost propulsion and had a 15-degree list.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minutes to hours? - Gordon Lightfoot
>>And that’s the thing . . . most of us are here on land. Yeah, we get floods, and tornadoes, and such . . . but we don’t live or make our living on something that moves beneath us.
We had to surface our submarine once in 30 ft seas to rescue the crew of a sinking freighter in the north Atlantic. That’s an experience I don’t want to repeat.
What sub? (if you’re allowed to tell).
If not, no biggie.
USS Scamp (SSN-588) February, 1988.
During a storm in the North Atlantic on 25 February 1987, while attempting to rescue members of the crew of the sinking Philippine freighter, MV Balsa 24, Scamp suffered flooding and damage to her sail which led to her early retirement. The ship saved the life of one crew member, Mr. Almer Rances.
That’s the one. I typed 1988 by mistake.
Bad enough damage to cause its decommissioning. Sounds intense.
Wow, cool. I’d sure hate to see 30-ft seas around me.
That’s a big ass ship
Prolly 30-50,000 dwt?
They do sink
>>Bad enough damage to cause its decommissioning. Sounds intense.
We were already scheduled for decommissioning in 1988. The damage just cut into our remaining opportunities for getting out to sea.
It was a rough two days.
Prayers for their safety.
>>Wow, cool. I’d sure hate to see 30-ft seas around me.
Especially when you have a round bottom, only one screw, a blunt bow, and giant sail on top. Then, we lost the ability to dive due to damage and had to fix it before we could get back under the storm.
And U.S. flagged
Do posters realize how rare that is these days
Had to have US or BritLloyds or Norske Veritas or German Lloyds classification too
You can’t run banana classification with US flag except under wartime waiver
A well managed and kept motor vessel
Amazing lost at sea from a storm without a collision or running aground
It’s very rare
My favorite grouper
the = that
Try it in a 40 foot ketch.....
No propulsion and a 15 degree list?
From my hobby of following great lakes freighters I know that is really bad. No propulsion likely means no generators ergo, no pumps.
CC
U cannot do commerce between US ports without US flag baring expediency waiver
Which explains this vessel trading Jax to San Juan
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