Norwegian Frigate in a collision

[HarryW]

A Norwegian Frigate was ran aground last night to stop it sinking after colliding with an Oil tanker.... Serious stuff, it looks like it's trying to now capsize as the tide comes in...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46136564

[HarryW]

We can all speculate on what happened, some may be better informed than others and might get close to it. Me I'm looking forward to seeing the results of the investigation, which the preliminary results should be fairly quick, rather than second guess it.

Good call to beach it though and prevent a total loss though as I suspect it would be on the bottom by now.

On another level sad to see such damage to what was a relatively young warship, not going to be cheap to repair or replace. Certainly not going to polish out....

[HarryW]

silverfoxcc said:

What was that RN ship that came home on a low loader?

IIRC that was repaired,and had similar damage

HMS Southampton I believe

[HarryW]

shed driver said:

HarryW said:

silverfoxcc said:

What was that RN ship that came home on a low loader?

IIRC that was repaired,and had similar damage

HMS Southampton I believe

HMS Nottingham I believe.

Board of Inquiry report
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/cy/request/10985/re...

SD.

Nearly, Nottingham hit a rock, Southampton cut in front of a tanker's bulbous bow and lost... Only the fact she stayed stuck on that bulb prevented her from sinking immediately. She also had a complication that the collision went across her main missile magazine damaging a few, but nothing untoward happened with them, thank fleck for SAU's.....

[HarryW]

motomk said:

A few news websites imply the frigate was stationary in a harbour?

Yes Ive read a few of those. Tbh I'll wait for the prelim report though. The damage is stbd aft quarter, which is surprising.

[HarryW]

aeropilot said:

phumy said:

It begs the question why they didnt use their damage control and compartmentalise the ship once they knew the hull had been breeched, it could have been kept afloat, even if a few compartments were flooded.

Err..........it was quite a big breach!

And that's what you can see on the surface.... Still struggling with the damage being on the stbd aft side, ships pass red to red, going to be an interesting story when it comes out.

[HarryW]

andy97 said:

An interesting description of the incident here

https://verdigris.blog/2018/11/17/the-helge-ingsta...

Very interesting, informative, well written and a good read to boot.

[HarryW]

Preliminary report and 2 recommendations published yesterday https://www.aibn.no/Marine/Investigations/18-968

[HarryW]

Steve_D said:

Interesting reading.
So the accident itself was a giant cockup.

The final sinking would seem to be a design failing meaning that more than one of the 'sealed compartments' were not actually sealed despite the hatches being closed. water escaped through shaft tunnel and other breaches in bulkheads. Not good.

Steve

That's how I read it, I think Navantia have some serious questions to answer...

[HarryW]

ecsrobin said:

Piginapoke said:

Huntsman said:

Salvage attempt.

https://gcaptain.com/salvage-norwegian-destroyer-h...

Being raised to scrap it?

It’s in the article.

Is it ?