Port of BOULOGNE-SUR-MER.janvier 2006

This day, Thursday January 12, 2006, to the surroundings of 08h20, the CROSS-COUNTRY Gray-nose (Operational Regional Center of Surveillance and Lifesaving) has been alerted by the cargo Star Herdla, who had thrown a" Mayday ", that a collision had just occurred between it and another ship in the upward way of the Device of Separation of the traffic (DST) of Pas-de-Calais, to about 7 nautical (a dozen of kilometers) to the large of Boulogne.

The ships implied in this collision are :

* the chimiquier Mantle Bradley, constructs in 2004 and lift pavilion of the Island Marshall, to Rotterdam, measuring 176 meters and transporting 30 053 tons of naphta (aromatic solvent very fowl), with 19 crew members on board; his/her/its stem is damaged ;
* the cargo STAR HERDLA constructed in 1994 and lift Norwegian pavilion, from Rotterdam and to Boulogne, on ballast, of a tonnage of about 13 374 tons with 21 crew members on board; his/her right rear flank is damaged to the level of his/her/its superstructures.

Photo R.Fournier