Heavy weather damage to ro-ro passenger ferry HRossey

Location: Off the Shetland Islands, Scotland.

• From: Marine Accident Investigation Branch
• Published: 23 January 2015

• Vessel type: Merchant vessel 100 gross tons or over
• Report type: Completed preliminary assessment
• Date of occurrence: 11 March 2002

Completed PE Summary: HRossey

A short summary of the accident and action taken:

	Merchant Vessel/Accident Details
Vessel Name	HRossey
Registered Owner/Manager	NorthLink Orkney & Shetland Ferries Limited
Port of Registry	Kirkwall
Flag	UK
Type	Ro-ro passenger vessel
Classification Society	Lloyd’s Register
Built	2002
Construction	Steel
Length Overall	125m
Gross Tonnage	11720
Date	03/11/2002
Location of Incident	Off the Shetland Islands
Incident Type	Heavy weather damage
Injuries/Fatalities	None
Damage/Pollution	Vessel damaged - failure of bearing housings

Synopsis

Heavy weather damage to passenger vessel.

Action taken:

The Chief Inspector of marine accidents has made the following recommendation to the owner and the captain of the vessel:

• The lessons learnt from this accident should be promulgated through the issue of a MAIB Safety Digest article.

• A Chief Inspector’s letter should be sent to the classification society and shipbuilder bringing their attention to the failure of the bearing housings

Published 23 January 2015