A fire broke out on a ship off the coast of Cherbourg

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This Thursday December 26, 2024at 2:10 p.m., Regional Operational Surveillance and Rescue Center (CROSS) Jobourg received a distress message from a bulk carriera ship carrying a food cargo, about forty kilometers away off the coast of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (Manche), in international waters.

21 people on board

Flying the flag of the Marshall Islands, this boat was the subject of a fire on board, in the living base premises. The CROSS quickly engages aero-maritime intervention resources. A assessment and intervention team composed of two firefighters and a nautical expert is quickly hoisted on board the shipvia the French Navy helicopter H160, based in Maupertus.

After a inventory of the disasterthe intervention and assistance and rescue tug (RIAS) Bee Liberty and the rescue boat from the SNSM station in Goury, Mona Rigolet II were triggered in a second step. Accompanied by the British patrol boat Seeker already present on site, they intervened to provide assistance to the stricken ship and its 21 crew members. According to our information, the latter also carried out the first steps for controlling fire.

“Around 4:30 p.m., the fire was declared extinguished. According to the first elements of expertise on board, there are no victims to deplore,” indicated this Thursday evening, the maritime prefecture of the Channel and the North Sea in a press release. “The damage linked to the fire does not present a danger to the safety of navigation or to the environment. »

The damaged ship must be received at port Le Havre at night in conjunction with the services of the Seine-Maritime prefecture. 180 meters long and 32 meters wide, it is escorted by theBee Freedom as a precaution and not for towing.

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