Fire and Explosion

Most Recent Fire and Explosion Alerts

Fire in Engine Room

Number: 16-26

Whilst returning to port from offshore one of our member’s vessels suffered a fire in her engine room. The crew were alerted when 3 sensors on the fire detection system activated setting off the fire alarm and the

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Cabin Fire

Number: 16-09

It has been reported by one of our members that they had been subject to a small fire in a crew member’s cabin. The crew member who was not in his cabin at the time had left a

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Microwave Incident

Number: 16-06

Recently an MSF member had an incident involving a microwave on one of their vessels that had the potential to be a lot more severe than it actually was.

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Failure of Floodlight Capacitor

Number: 15-15

A vessel recently suffered a failure of a deck floodlight capacitor when an electrical ballast unit caught fire resulting in the triggering of the Fire Detection System. The ships fire party mustered, the cause of the activation was

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Spontaneous Combustion

Number: 15-09

We had an incident on a vessel recently that could have quickly escalated into a Galley fire during the night. The night watchman was carrying out his usual tasks and after washing the Galley tea towels, they went

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