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The historic tug 'Furie' (MMSI: 244710829) was in collision with the 'B.A.P. Unión i' enroute to the SAIL Amsterdam. In the IJmuiden lock on Aug 20, 2025. The 'Furie', made famous by the television series Hollands Glorie in the 1970s, escaped with a broken plank. The tug was moored next to a Finnish sailing ship. When the lock gates opened, a Finnish ship casts off, and the tug's bow was turned in the wrong direction against the starboard side bow of the STS, which was under tow. The damage remained limisted, and the plank, which was damaged, has been replaced, so that the ship could join the parade to Amsterdam during the SAIL. Report with photo and video: https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/2067151/schipper-woedend-na-aanvaring-historisch-schip-tijdens-sail-amsterdam

On Aug 26, 2025, at around 3:50 a.m. the engine of the 'Grande Sierra Leone' failed after a technical malfunction in the engine control room caused a blackout, while the ship was sailing on the Weser River en route from Antwerp to Bremerhaven. The disabled vehicles carrier emergency anchored on the Weser and was pulled into the port by several tugs at around 5:10 a.m. It was safely moored at the Strom Quay in pos. 53° 35' N 008° 32' E. No injuries or environmental damage occurred. According to initial investigations by the Bremen Waterways Police, a technical defect in the engine control room was responsible for the failure. Further investigations into the cause were ongoing. Only after the completion of repairs and the subsequent class confirmation by the monitoring classification society, the ship was permitted to leave Bremerhaven again. It sailed from the port on Aug 29, en route to Valencia with an ETA as of Sep 2.

The Crowley Stena Marine Solutions, the joint venture between Crowley and Stena Bulk, has received US permission for a replacement of the damaged tanker 'Stena Immaculate' (IMO: 9693018) in the frame of the US’s Tanker Security Program, which is administered by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) to transport fuel supplies for the U.S. Department of Defense. The MARAD has approved operating the 'CS Anthem', the former 'STI Bosphorus', under the program in order to advance the nation’s strategic sealift capabilities, strengthening U.S. maritime security and providing reliable, U.S.-crewed tanker capacity in support of national defense. The new vessel is largely a swap with the same characteristics as the 'Stena Immaculate'. The CS Anthem had been operating for India’s Scorpio. The tanker was recently transferred to the U.S. flag from the Marshall Islands and now has a homeport of Jacksonville, Florida. Crowley is responsible for crewing and managing the tanker under a bareboat charter through the joint venture. The company also manages the 'Stena Imperative' and 'Stena Impeccable' in the Tanker Security Program. The 'Stena Immaculate' remained berthed in Great Yarmouth ifor the time being.

The lift of the 'Isle of Mull', serving on the route Oban-Craignure, was out out of service on Aug 23. An engineer went on board and carried out repairs. Customers were advised that the passenger access system in both Oban and Craignure remained in operation. Passengers who required assistance were advised to travel aboard the ferry 'Loch Frisa'. Service Engineers have attended, however repairs have been unsuccessful. The lift remained out of service whilst further investigations were carried out by service engineers. A spare part was required for repairs and was due to be aboard on Sep 1, with a further update to be provided then.

On the early morning of Aug 29, 2025, a fire broke out aboard the 'Beliza X', which was sailing withn the Portuguese SAR zone northeast of Funchal. The four crew members initially abandoned the vessel and went into the life raft. They were later able to bring the fire under control and re-embark the sailboat. A rescue operation was underway and coordinated by the RSC Fin unchal. The yacht had left Puerto Sotogrande on Aug 26.

The Urk station was called to a medical incident aboard the 'Meridiaan' on the evening of Aug 20, 2025. A child had fallen down the stairs and suffered back pain. The ship was moored near an island in the Ketelmeer. The lifeboat 'Marinus Cornelis' was mobilized to provide first aid. Ambulance crews twere picked up in Ketelhaven by the lifeboat 'Kapiteins Hazewinkel'. The child was placed on a vacuum mattress, preventing movement. Once stabilized and on a stretcher, the child was transferred to the 'Kapiteins Hazewinkel' for further care. In Ketelhaven, the victim and ambulance crew were brought to an ambulance. The child was then taken to the hospital for further medical care. Report with photo: https://www.knrm.nl/nieuws/knrm-reddingstation-urk/assistentie-ambulance-aan-boord-van-zeilschip

The "Hav Sand" was detained in Fiskaa on Aug 25, 2025, with seven deficiencies, one of which being regarded as serious and a ground for a detention: 1) Pollution Prevention - Oil filtering equipment Inoperative The vessel was released again on Aug 27 and left the port en route to Moss, where it arrived on Aug 29. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

The 'Furie' was in collision with the Peruvian sailing training ship 'B.A.P. Unión i' (MMMSI: 760105000) enroute to the SAIL Amsterdam. In the IJmuiden lock on Aug 20, 2025. The 'Furie', made famous by the television series Hollands Glorie in the 1970s, escaped with a broken plank. The tug was moored next to a Finnish sailing ship. When the lock gates opened, a Finnish ship casts off, and the tug's bow was turned in the wrong direction against the starboard side bow of the STS, which was under tow.. The damage remained limisted, and the plank, which was damaged, has been replaced, so that the ship could join the parade to Amsterdam during the SAIL. Report with photo and video: https://www.rijnmond.nl/nieuws/2067151/schipper-woedend-na-aanvaring-historisch-schip-tijdens-sail-amsterdam

On the early afternoon Aug 28, 2025, the 'Ajax' lifted a 13-m-pleasure boat with the hull number 125226-A from a groyne, where it had been stuck on the Rhine near Rüdesheim (Rheingau-Taunus) at river km 524 since Aug 10 at around 10 a.m. The salvage operation took about three and a half hours. To raise the boat, wires had to be pulled under the damaged vessel. The Bingen Waterways and Shipping Authority deployed the crane ship, several small boats, 15 salvage workers and a diver. After the salvage, which had started at around 11 a.m. and was concluded at 1.45 p.m.,the boat was transported to the port of Bingen, where, it was to be inspected for leaks and seaworthiness. The two skippers from the Berlin area had lacked sufficient local knowledge and were too careless due to the high water levels at the time of the grounding, according to the investigations of the police. The men initially had planned to stay on their damaged boat, but then changed their minds. The German Lifesaving Association (DLRG) finally brought them to shore in an inflatable boat. The cost of the salvage operation were more than 10,000 Euros and will now be billed to the owners. On Aug 28 it was revealed that the two men had already attracted attention before the boat ran aground, as they may have been under the influence of alcohol,, according to the Karlsruhe water police, and had attracted negative attention at other locations on the Rhine. Reports with photos and video: https://www.hessenschau.de/panorama/ruedesheim-gestrandetes-boot-geborgen--bootsfuehrer-sollen-kosten-tragen-v8,ruedesheim-boot-bergung-102.html https://www.fr.de/hessen/werden-attraktion-auf-dem-rhein-in-ruedesheim-gestrandete-jacht-soll-geborgen-zr-93904149.html https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/08/berlin-rhein-gestrandet-boot-schwimmkran-bergung-ruedesheim.html https://www.wiesbadener-kurier.de/lokales/kreis-rheingau-taunus/ruedesheim-kreis-rheingau-taunus/liveticker-so-laeuft-die-bergung-des-gestrandeten-sportboots-auf-dem-rhein-4918827

The Crowley Stena Marine Solutions, the joint venture between Crowley and Stena Bulk, has received US permission for a replacement of the damaged 'Stena Immaculate' in the frame of the US’s Tanker Security Program, which is administered by the Maritime Administration (MARAD) to transport fuel supplies for the U.S. Department of Defense. The MARAD has approved operating the 'CS Anthem' (IMO: 9785691), the former 'STI Bosphorus', under the program in order to advance the nation’s strategic sealift capabilities, strengthening U.S. maritime security and providing reliable, U.S.-crewed tanker capacity in support of national defense. The new vessel is largely a swap with the same characteristics as the 'Stena Immaculate'. The CS Anthem had been operating for India’s Scorpio. The tanker was recently transferred to the U.S. flag from the Marshall Islands and now has a homeport of Jacksonville, Florida. Crowley is responsible for crewing and managing the tanker under a bareboat charter through the joint venture. The company also manages the 'Stena Imperative' and 'Stena Impeccable' in the Tanker Security Program. The 'Stena Immaculate' remained berthed in Great Yarmouth ifor the time being.

As the 'Loch Alainn', serving on the route Ardmhor-Eriskay, was carrying out a repair on Aug 27 and to provide crew compensatory rest, the 07:00 a.m. request sailing departing Barra and the 08:10 a.m. request sailing departing Eriskay have been cancelled.

On Aug 27 at noon, the Mykonos Port Authority was informed that the 'Ekaterini P', whilewas operating a route from the port of Naxos to the port of Mykonos, suffered a broken window in the first class lounge. Subsequently, the window was sealed by the ship's crew. No injuries were caused by the incident. The Mykonos Port Authority granted the ship permission to carry out a single circular voyage, following rthe elevant certification from the monitoring classification society, and continued its scheduled route to the ports of Tinos and Rafina. After the arrival o at the port of Rafina, its departure was initially prohibited by the Port Authority, while after the presentation of a certificate of class maintenance oand seaworthiness, it was permitted to continue.

On Aug 28, 2025, at approximately 5:30 a.m., the captain of the ' Christine-FED 4', with three crew members on board, notified the MRCC of the DGzRS in Bremen, that the fishing vessel had run aground a good two nautical miles north of the Mellum bird sanctuary island (Lat. 53.7650 Lng. 8.1483). Because the water was receding while the tide was already beginning to go out, the captain feared that his vessel might capsize at a later date.the MRCC immediately alerted the sea rescuers of the Hooksiel station, and the lifeboat 'BernhardGruben' was mobilized. By the time the sea rescuers arrived on scene, the fishing vessel was high and dry on the sand. Therefore, it was no longer possible to tow it free at that time. As a precaution, the daughter boat ' Johann Fidi' took off two of the three fishermen. captain remained on board. In the following hours, the lifeboat remained on standby to secure the fishing vessel. However, its position remained stable. Around 2 p.m., the tide raised the water level sufficiently to tow the vessel free by the lifeboat. The two previously rescued fishermen returned to their vessel, which sailed under its own power to its home port of Fedderwardersiel. At the time of the accident, there was a light southeasterly to southerly wind of force 3 Beaufort and good visibility. Report with photos: https://www.seenotretter.de/aktuelles/seenotfaelle/seenotretter-befreien-festgekommenen-fischkutter-vor-mellum?fbclid=IwdGRleAMdYntjbGNrAx1ieWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEePCqMnwh0oE_pi-R9oG8xz1CIngMIRxNGl0r6IufRA8QcBpJ1ziGePmX8m_U_aem_RxvYETVef9-t8BIfxmwKoQ

On Aug 23, 2025, the 'Star Energy' berthed at the Novatek's terminal in port of Ust-Luga. The company's fuel-producing complex was damaged by a fire. caused by a Ukrainian drone, early on Aug 24, Operations at the complex and fuel loadings were fully halted on that day. The Ust-Luga complex, with a capacity of nine million tonnes a year, refines stable gas condensate mainly into light and heavy naphtha. It also produces jet fuel, ship fuel component (fuel oil) and gasoil.L The tanker left the terminal early on Aug 28 and was moving towards the Suez Canal. It could have taken on board about 120,000 tonnes of naphtha produced at Novatek's Ust-Luga complex before the fire. From Aug 1 until Aug 23, three tankers loaded a total of nearly 350,000 tonnes of naphtha at the terminal with Singapore as destination. Novatek could decrease naphtha exports from Ust- Luga in Sep by about 300,000 tonnes because of the fire at the gas condensate refining complex.

The 'Alfa Nero' had re-entered the global market with a price tag of approximately US$102 million, just over a year after the Government of Antigua and Barbuda sold the vessel for around US$40 million. The potential markup suggested a paper profit of more than US$50 million before factoring in refit expenses, broker commissions, and carrying costs. Antigua's authorities had seized the yacht after it was abandoned in Falmouth Harbour. Following a failed public auction in 2023, the government transitioned to a private treaty arrangement, concluding the sale in July 2024 for approximately US$40 million. Court filings later revealed the buyer as Ali Riza Yildirim, head of Turkey’s Yildirim Group. The vessel. however, remained entangled in ongoing legal disputes, which stem from a claim by Russian national Yullia Gureyeva, who asserted ownership of the yacht.

On the afternoon of Aug 6, 2025, at around 4.30 p.m., a fire broke out aboard the 'Stella Navis' in the Elbe Port of Europoort in Rotterdam. The fire started in a cabin, which was completely destroyed, but no one was injured. The fire department arrived quickly and extinguished the fire; however, a large amount of smoke was released, which had to be removed from the ship. The cause of the fire was not yet known. The ship had arrived in Rotterdam en route from New Orleans on Aug 18 and remained stationary as of Aug 29.

The company V.Ships Norway A.S. has pleaded guilty to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and will pay a $2 million fine after admitting to illegal discharges of oily bilge water and oily waste from the 'Swift Winchester', actually sailing as 'Sea La Bamba'. The company also acknowledged that these discharges were deliberately omitted from the vessel’s Oil Record Book. Between Feb 2022 and Aug 2022, crew members connected a hose between the incinerator waste oil tank and the sewage holding tank on the tanker, allowing oily waste to bypass required pollution prevention equipment and discharge directly into the sea. A low-ranking engine crew member reported the violations to a V.Ships Superintendent, who discovered oil in the sewage tank during an investigation. The company subsequently dismissed the Chief Engineer. In a separate incident in Aug 2022, a new Chief Engineer ordered the engine crew to clean the oil water separator filter. The crew took the filter onto the deck, hosed it down with degreaser, and allowed the oily waste to wash directly overboard through a scupper. The illegal activities were uncovered when the Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur of the U.S. Coast Guard carried out an inspection, during which an engine room crew member disclosed the discharges and provided photographic and video evidence. The 'Swift Winchester' entered Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Aug 25, 2022, and Port Arthur, Texas, on Sep 7, 2022, with a knowingly falsified Oil Record Book. The case was investigated by the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Port Arthur and the U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service. Prosecutors from the Environmental Crimes Section, Eastern District of Texas, and Middle District of Louisiana handled the case.

The 'Take it Easy', with one crew member on board, requested assistance off the beach of La Pineda on Aug 28, 2025. The yacht had suffered an engine failure. The CCS Tarragona of Salvamento Marítimo deployed the SAR boat 'Salvamar Fomalhaut', which took the yacht from Herefored in tow and safely pulled it to the Tarragona Sports Port. Report with photo: https://x.com/salvamentogob/status/1961105578425545038

The 'Monreal' ((IMO 7225477), the former 'Lite Ferry 6', caught fire off San Andres town in Quezon province on the night of Aug 27, 2025. The ferry was en route from Aroroy, Masbate, to San Andres when the fire broke out in a crew cabin due t an electrical short circuit, when the ship was sailing about a nautical mile from the port. The fire was quickly contained, and power was restored by an onboard electrician. The ship, carrying 16 vehicles, safely docked at San Andres port at 10:49 p.m. All 66 passengers, 22 crew members, and 31 cadets were unharmed. The PCG has asked the Maritime Industry Authority in Region IV-A to suspend the vessel’s Passenger Ship Safety Certificate pending an investigation.

The "Rapid" was detained once more on Aug 14 in Kocaeli with 30 deficiencies, in this case 13 of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention: 1) Certificate & Doc - SOPEP Missing 2) Life saving Appliances - Rescue boats Not ready for use 3) Life saving Appliances - Launching arrangements for rescue boats Not as required 4) Life saving Appliances - Rescue boat inventory Missing 5) Life saving Appliances - Emergency equipment for 2-way comm Batteries expired 6) Life saving Appliances - Distress flares Missing 7) Safety of navigation - BNWAS Inoperative 8)) Fire safety - Fire detection and alarm systems Inoperative 9) Fire safety - Fixed fire exthinguishing installation Not as required 10) Fire safety - Division - decks, bulkheads and penetrations Not as required 11) Water/Weather - Ventilators, air pipes and casings Not as required 12) Radio communications - Other (Radio comm) Other 13) ISM - Ism certificate Not as required The vessel was released again on Aug 27 and left the port en route to Reni with an ETA as of Aug 31. The last detentions were only on April 11 in Poti with nine deficiencies for three days, on Feb 13 in Karasu with 24 deficiencies for also three days and on Sep 18, 2024: in Karadeniz Eregli with 33 deficiencies for a week. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591