Finnarrow in Serious Bother in Holyhead and Taking on Water

seanmacc

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/shipdetails.aspx?mmsi=230903000&header=true

Listening to reports from officials in Dublin Port, the Finnarrow which departed Dublin Port in the early hours of this morning arrived into Holyhead whilst taking on water.

The suspected cause of the incident is that the ship came into port with its stablisers still deployed.

The Finnarrow was a relief ship for the Stena Nordica whilst the Nordica relived the Stena Europe as it went into drydock. It now transpires that the Finnarrow may now have to be towed to drydock when sea worthy again.

Whilst repairs take place there will be major disruption in the Port of Holyhead as the Finnarrow is now stuck on the Irish Ferries berth. Initial thoughts are that this repair may take days.

As of yet there are no links but I'd imagine a few photos will emerge in the coming hours. Supposedly the aft of the ship is visibly sunk in the water.

Stenaline's only reference to it on their information services is "CANCELLED Technical" http://www.stenaline.ie/ferry/latest-sailing-information/dublin-port-holyhead/

From ITV news Wales: http://www.itv.com/news/wales/

Passengers and crew evacuated from vessel in Holyhead
Stena Line has confirmed there was an incident at Holyhead port in Anglesey at around 6am this morning as the Stena Line charter ship Finnarrow was berthing in Holyhead en route from Dublin Port which involved the ship’s stabilisers.

All 77 passengers and 43 crew onboard the vessel were evacuated and the vessel was safely berthed.

The vessel is currently docked in Holyhead undergoing inspections and will remain out of service for the immediate future.

Stena Line passengers due to travel on Stena Line’s Holyhead-Dublin service will be accommodated on alternative sailings and are currently being contacted by the company to advise them of the situation.

seanmacc

http://forum.shipspotting.com/index.php?topic=11606.0

Link to another forum discussing it.

The problems this is causing are huge.

Because the Finarrow is on the Ulysess berth in Holyhead both the Ulysess and Adventurer will have to share a berth. That essentially means the Ulysess comes in and berths up, discharges and moves off to let the Adventurer do the same. The Adventurer then loads up and departs as normal and the Ulysess will then re-berth and then load. It will cause Irish Ferries timetable a lot of agro and it isn't even their ship causing the hassle.

Futtocks

She's now showing on AIS to be just inside the pier-head in the Old Harbour so she'll not be obstructing the outer terminals

seanmacc

Futtocks wrote: »

She's now showing on AIS to be just inside the pier-head in the Old Harbour so she'll not be obstructing the outer terminals

There must be an error on the AIS. If you look at the vessels you can see it has sailed over land. The Finnarrow is still on the Irish Ferries berth. The Stena Adventurer is now running an amended departure time to allow the Ulysess to discharge and load and the Ulysess has pushed forward its 14:10 departure to 13:30 to allow the Adventurer in.

seanmacc

Finnarrow left Holyhead earlier today on a slow 4.1knot tow to Greenock

Tabnabs

Pictures of the Finnarrow now in Inchgreen drydock

http://www.inverclydenow.com/news/pictures/ships-boats-and-maritime-images/ferries-and-other-passenger-vessels-excluding-cruise-ships/finnarrow/in-inchgreen-drydock-5-march-2013

long range shooter

Those stabilisers should have rectracted automatically below 5 knots,or at least have given an alarm when out.
Something doesn't add up here?

http://www.rolls-royce.com/marine/products/stabilisation_manoeuvring/stabilisers/neptune/index.jsp

Tabnabs

I see from Dublin Ports website, she's due back on the run shortly. 16/03/2013 23:45 arrival