Sail Training Ship Leeuwin Struck by Maersk Shekou in the Port of Fremantle, August 30, 2024
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Australian Sailing Vessel Dismasted by Containership
August 30, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano - a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner - discusses the containership Maersk Shekou striking the Sail Training Ship Leeuwin in the port of Fremantle and damage to the ship, piers, and Maritime Museum.
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🚨A few corrections:
1. Leeuwin is a barquentine vice brigentine.
2. AMSA is the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.
3. Dismasted vice demasted 😂
Sorry...a hectic day.🚨
@@wgowshipping
No worries!
With all the ship going on these days....
It's easy to get a little dinghy on the minute details.
@@wgowshipping and brigantine is a two masted ship, as well as brig. Rougly brig- two masts, bark- three or more, - tine fore-aft sails on all masts except foremost, as opposite at all square sails
@@dmitripogosian5084of course, everyone knows that!
AMSA not ASMA
@dmitripogosian5084 I just brain-farted on this as I am familiar with barks of different rigs.
Learning news from my own country from somebody who's 9,000mi/14,000km away. Thanks for keeping me in touch with what is going on. 😃
Hi, I'm in Oz. It was allover my tiktok early this morning
mate i live in the city is first i heard of this
Bell Tower Times the satirical pisstake site broke it first and it was all over social media before the East Coast centric Oz news media finally woke up
And i hear the most honest political news about my country from yours.
Maybe that's the only way (for now) we can get real news - from entities that cannot be made to suffer for telling the truth - not immediately, anyway.
Interesting. Here in Perth, this was all over the news from when it happened yesterday morning and all day.
I was working on the port in Fremantle that morning, and the wind was horrendous. There were actually stacks of Sea Containers being blown over.
tell Kayleb i said hi
I'm 10km inland and 180km south, and trees were getting knocked over. It was pretty wild.
Wind this week has been crazy all over southern Australia
I normally don't try to second guess the Pilots and Captain, but maybe this time around the container ship should have waited to enter, at least until the winds abated a bit. Maneuvering something with that much "sail area" in adverse winds would be daunting. Also, did the pilots misjudge the turn or did the winds veer at the wrong moment and set her to starboard despite rudder and tugs? I watched carriers Enterprise and Eisenhower get blown around in harbor by the winds, dragging their unfortunate tugs along with them. Big E went aground in Pearl Harbor and Ike sideswiped a bulker at anchor in Norfolk.
I thought tugs were for steering ,not for braking. Or attempted braking. She blew thru the turn when she should have turned sooner, she turned later.
Dutchie here: Leeuwin II is named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin which mapped the south-west coast of Australia in 1622. In Dutch, Leeuwin means Lioness and is pronounced as 'Laywin'. Thank you for the informative video, as always.
Neat! Thanks for this info!
@@annenelson5656 I noticed is's a Dutch word, then looked the ship up on wiki and did what we Dutchies are famous for: Pass the knowledge p'on the port-hand side 🎵🎶
There is also a Cape Leeuwin down the southwest coast, and HMAS (Her/His Majesty's Australian Ship) Leeuwin was was the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Junior Recruit Training Establishment (JRTE) just up the river from the port in Fremantle ... I trained there from July 1979 to March 1980!
Leeuwin is a respected name in the maritime history of Australia, and Western Australia particularly. That's why we have sail training ships which carry that name.
Thanks for that. All the best from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
That's not how we pronounce it in WA!
We say Loo-en.
Glad to have your additional technical information from what I have already seen.
That sailing ship actually has an global adoration as a functional, operating ship.
I sincerely hope that Maersk steps up to the plate and makes that Sailing Ship whole with all due diligence and dispatch rather than drag it through the usual slow motion insurance blame game
Would love to think so, but Maersk are not the easiest to deal with, and will be putting blame on pilotage
@@rogereade4950 Just spin it off as a goodwill gesture that they can benefit from. After all the Leeuwin was a very pleasing and visually pleasing ship and can still go back to be, so having the Maersk name associated with the rebuilt ship would be cheap marketing.
@@ehsnils Maybe, I have seen the Leeuwin a couple of times when visiting family in Aussie ( it would seen there are as many Kiwi's in Aussie as there is back here and half of that live in WA) and always wished I could go for a sail on her.
They’ll drag it out.
@@rogereade4950
Once the lawyers get involved even the seagulls and the hot dog stand down the street will get blamed.
I crewed on Leeuwin2 during the 90's. She transformed my life. I went on to gain my Master 5 ticket.
@@bobeden5027
Which is one MORE reason Maersk needs to expedite FULL restoration.
i hope they can fix her, tall ships are so rare these days... every single one of them is a gem worth every effort to keep in shape.
cheers from an ex german-navy dude.
My ex husband did too. It hit him hard seeing her in bits
A friend of mind found her passion for sailing on the Leewuin2 during highschool. That single highschool expedition shaped her future for the absolute better.
In Australia we were starting to feel a bit left out of the latest craze of ship crashing , now we are part of the mainstream !
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@tippo5341 Oh dear me. We always have to hear from the never lefties.
@@grosvenorclub Sorry about that.
Careful what you wish for, sometimes they come true! Lol
"It could be worse"
It could have taken out the park benches in the Central Business District in Melbourne.
I live 2 klm south of the port in a top floor apartment. The time this happened I was just leaving for work, I large swell suddenly kicked off with heavy rain. The wind was so strong that the electric gate to the complex could not release (I freed it and got it open). It was a short while later the first reports of the incident came on the radio. This sudden swell no doubt in my mind had a bearing on the incident. It came and went very sudden, a few minutes after it happened it was gone and the weather was fine?
The Leeuwin is much loved in Fremantle, it is sad news here.
Leeuwin is a treasure. I spent 10 days on her back in the late '80's. It was a great experience I highly recommend.
Sad to see the damage and that would have been a nightmare for those two crew trying to get off.
I spent a day on her in the notoriously rough water south of Rottnest.
It was all I could do to hang on as I was blasted by sea water!
Fond memories.
Investigation agency is ATSB - Australian Transport Safety Bureau They investigation accidents and incidents to Aircraft, shipping and Trains. They are very thorough. I have been out to sea on the Leeuwin. I was a Scout Leader at a Jamboree in Perth 30 years ago and a day out on the ship was one of the available activities. An advantage of being a leader was that I could give instant agreement to safety riles and so got to climb the mast. What an amazing thrill. I am confident that the Leeuwin will be repaired and return to service.
My cousin was the first Skipper on the Lewin
Wow, been watching your channel for several months now and never expected a video from my home port of Fremantle. Ilike many West Australians I took my young family out on STS Leeuen several years ago. In the 1980 and 1990's there was a purpose built facility in the adjacent fishing boat harbour, which built full size replicas of Captain Cooks's Endeavour with which he sailed from England on his voyages of exploration of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific and Dutch ship Duyfken which was the first European ship to visit Australian shores in 1605. Both replicas sailed the globe returning to where thier namesakes originated. Australia 2 the 12 metre yacht that broke the worlds longest winning streak by taking the Americas Cup from Dennis Connor and the New York Yacht Club would have been hanging from the roof of the Museum the ship clipped. Unfortunately the facilities for building these ships were closed and converted to other uses decades ago. Western Australia is at least until the Iron Ore Royalties run out is a very rich state with a couple of Billionaires who would likely to chip in along with the state lottery commision so hopefully a good outcome.
Not sure about the billionaires "chipping in" as it's probably not high profile enough to be worth their while(a fresh America's Cup challenge would be nice though, wink wink, nudge nudge). Best hope in situations like these is likely to be with the insurance companies paying out. Good info otherwise though.
Shame they now have to park it where any accident is going to occur on the outside of that bend.
I sailed on that vessel some 45 years ago as a teen.
This is truly heartbreaking, I can only hope she can be rebuilt quickly as we have some of the world's most capable shipwrights!
*HEY SAL* minor correction and I only know this because I looked up this topic a few years ago because we generally refer to Captain Cooks famous vessel as the _HM Bark Endeavor_ but also sometimes referred to it as the _barque Endeavor_ because she was also a barque (3 masts).
The STS Leeuwin II is a three-masted *barquentine,* (NOT brigantine) named after the Dutch galleon Leeuwin which mapped the south-west coast of Australia in 1622
Simple thing regarding ships with square rigged masts -
Brig - 2 masts with BOTH masts square rigged.
Brigantine - 2 masts with the foremast square rigged and the aft mast fore-aft gaff rigged.
Barque - 3 or more square rigged masts, but the aft mast can be fore-aft gaff rigged.
Barquentine - 3 or more masts with only the foremast square rigged and the rest fore-aft gaff rigged.
There's are nuances to these terms and the interpretations are flexible.
If you want to get confused by all of this go look up Wikipedia and include in your research Schooners. Ketchs and Yawls.
I'm in Sth Fremantle and this is the most comprehensive info that I've been given. Many Thanks!
UA-cam is so much better for news that local tv. I don't even have my tv tuned.
@@DJSockmonkeyMusic Cant watch the footy or cricket on YT but.
@@ceeemm1901 good point.
Hi Sal. I've lived in the Fremantle area for 57 years and watched many many ships come into and leave port some small and some who were so large they could only just turn between each side of the port and it was some years ago widened, we've had some of the super liners like the Ovation of the Sea drawing a huge crowd on entry and when leaving even aircraft carriers and the royal yacht with 1000's of container ships and carriers. my family and I came to the passenger terminal from England on the Fair Star in 1967. some ships occasionally hit the wharf and do some damage colliding and being tied up but never something like this. we used to have the Duykfen Little Dove tall ship replica moored around the same place that was built in Fremantle. i hope that they can rebuild the Leeuwin II back to its glory regards Nigel Western Autralia thanks for covering this and all the other events including the bridge collapse
Theh you must remember the tug that slammed into HMS ALBION left a huge dent amidships,
Maersk better pay for the full rebuild of Leeuwin and make her better than new
One can hope they go above and beyond and fast track and make it whole asap after the investigation is complete.
Reality says it will drag out and end up being a "go fund me" charity drive while the principal at fault parties play the blame game
@@blaydCAIt won't take much social media pressure to change that attitude. Maersk has a good image that they'd like to keep.
There is a reason you are required to pay a pilot. It's because the pilot is an expert on safely entering the port.
Moller family controlled, publicly traded stock
Market cap: As of August 2024, Maersk has a market cap of $23.50 billion, making it the world's 835th most valuable company.
Lets see if the Moller family does the RIGHT THING.
I learned quickly, while transiting inbound, the mouth of the Mississippi, it's the stern that turns. More pronounced with meet and greet out bound traffic plus the two dredges 😅
Sal i just want to say I’m an old man living in the dry western usa never been on a big ship never really had any interest in shipping but ever since the Baltimore bridge incident I have been following your channel you really have opened my eyes to the importance of shipping around the world thank you
Thanks
Same.
Maybe a "bucket list" item for you do!
Just because we are getting old, doesn't mean we need to grow mold!
It's been decades since I've sailed, but it was ALWAYS enjoyable.
No Shipping No Shopping, a high percentage of products, produce are transported by Ships & Seafarers 24/7/365 .
@@blueocean2510
How terrible!
Less refuse going to the landfill.
Can't have THAT!
This brought back many happy memories. I grew up in Fremantle and frequented the harbour often. I hope the Leeuwin is repaired. Thanks Sal.
Meantime keep your toys out of the water when the chinese are navigating it.
Everyone else knows that. In the good old day the chinese were well known as cooks.
Learn things, live longer. It seems that even their pilots are dim sum.
@@michaelmcneil4168 There is undoubtedly truth to this, but lets not jump the gun and blame people until the facts are figured out. We have tugs, wind and other things to look at.
@@michaelmcneil4168 the pilots work out of Freo every day. Most of them are white Australians.
@@michaelmcneil4168 dur dur dur dur
Speaking from the port city of New London, Connecticut, where the USCG Eagle is homeported... this is absolutely heartbreaking. I hope the ship is able to be repaired and return to its duty, and those injured get all the care they need to come back to work aboard in the future. These ships are treasures... visit one in port if you have the opportunity. Thanks for another great video, Sal.
I live 40 minutes away from that Port and your video is the 1st I’ve seen or heard anything about this. Good detail
Same here, exactly. Very interesting to learn of it here
There is something special about seeing a big sailing ship with all its canvas up. Hope they can get her repaired and sailing again soon. Would have been a frightening moment for the two crew with all of the rigging coming down around them
Maersk is worth billions... they'd better cough up the cash for mother of all re-fits....
Here's a new nautical word that everybody can learn today. Allision. This was an allision, not a collision since Leeuwin was tied up alongside. Picky but fun.
Allision (n): the running of one ship upon another ship that is stationary -distinguished from collision.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
Not homophone with elision right?
@@hobog Two entirely different words.
Oh! THAT's where I went wrong! "Your Honour, I didn't know the lady in question was tied up. Our genitals merely collided,.. accidentally." I should have said I thought her name was Alison and I might have gotten off.
From a retired Master Mariner based in Melbourne this is a great report.
Thank you Sal
@@metalmanglingmariner Thanks Capt!
This is an excellent summary. Great job.
My two thoughts having done my training time on a Tug out of Freo I believe there’s some intricate physics here playing out. Maybe the Maresk was going too fast because they take so long to pull up by Tugs, it takes time and it’s pretty tight, also can be very strong gusty winds. The Freo current would be pumping out of the port with our peak rainfall of the year and tide maybe pumping out of the harbour. Combine the wind, speed, current / tide and potentially this impacted that turn. It all happens really quick and that tanker may have struggled just a little to turn.
They need the tugs right there and it looks like they tried to pull it up, but displacement of tons of water and slowing the near 100,000 tons of ship takes time, time it didn’t have.
That little bit is the difference and the speed compounded the physics.
Come down to Aus buddy, it’s beautiful.
Great comment.
Thanks for the awesome update, local media here are pretty clueless. Leeuwin is a much loved and well known vessel here in WA.
bless you for timing the video for the australians. nice play for the clicks too :)
I think the timing was a really good decision. Because it came out at noon your time, it gave a lot of time for Australians to get comments in before we Yankees saturated the comments section. So we got a lot more local info in the comments section.
Went to Perth a few years ago on a business trip and was lucky enough to be able to take my wife with me. We spent a Saturday in Fremantle and I couldn't believe how many pictures she took of this ship. I'm glad you said it, Sal; iconic is the proper description! Best wishes and rapid recovery to the two injured crew members!
Sal excellent analysis again…. I previously investigated a girting incident in Fremantle many years ago, but ….Yes the additional speed because of following winds is the primary cause, but the additional consequential causes is most likely Navigation team failures ( ie bridge resource management failures, language communication issues and cultural power imbalances ( ie navigation team national cultures that don’t challenge authority when they identify problems) , I have not see any mechanical failure reporting so I exclude that, but the significant additional causation is most likely pilotage error (which is probably going to be indemnified by the ship owner) …look at the tug Svitzer falcon and Riverwisj Emma positions. When the ship passed the end of southern headland ( where they need the swing to port to be induced - as seen in the 3 July passage) the Svitzer falcon and Riverwijs Emma are ( with the 2 stern tugs) pulling astern (as they are parallel to ship) Also the affect of wind and swell is more on starboard quarter (Wanting to swing the ship to starboard) while the starboard bow midship area is slightly lesser exposed to the sw wind because of the southern break water - they were focused on slowing the ship by pulling astern, probably at more than 3/4 power. But at about the point the ship’s bow is abeam the 1st yellow special mark you see Riverwisj Emma start to swing out to port ( while pulling astern, probably at lesser power used to pull astern when parallel to the ship, until fully out to port. This manoeuvre ( ordered by pilot is to aid the ships bow to swing to port - (the pilots knew then the bow was not turning to port, hence the order to Riverwisj Emma to move perpendicular) and most likely also confirmed because the pilots see visually the internal port lead line ( dotted line above ship on port bow on chart) is already ( when the bow is abeam the 4th yellow special marker) probably more closed (reduced in angle much closer to , but not yet at , the internal lead lights becoming in transit alignment) - indicating the turn is late. The Svitzer falcon (while the Riverwisj Emma is swinging out) is line-on starboard bow, and still pulling astern, induced forces on the bow to starboard, further causing slowing of the ships response to turn the bow to swing to port ( even with Riverwisj at max port angle) .Ordinarily Svitzer falcon (would at slower speeds ) be used to push up on the starboard bow to induce the port swing quicker. You can see the swing is also late because on ais the ship head is not on the vector arrow showing the ship bodily movement when the bow is pointing more to port. So pilot orders to tugs and speed control management will be important causative issues, which unless it can be found that pilots actions and orders are intentionally negligent, likely be indemnified by the ship owner and paid by insurers. The insurers May also chase the port authority for some contribution component if they can prove the port knew of weather squalls expected at time of arrival, exceeded Port weather limits for arrivals of container ships.
Excellent points. Thanks for sharing.
We've certainly been under the weather here in Tasmania this week, Thursday night I really thought we'd lose our roof - I think the airport recorded 110kph & we're about 4-miles south, so pretty close to the coast. I haven't heard that WA had such heavy weather. A great shame for the Leeuwin - hope there is insurance to get it quickly repaired as summer will soon be here, and trust the injured will quickly heal too. Thanks for the updates & news. Wouldn't have wanted to be sailing on The Spirit this week!
@@SmallWonda While the masts are obviously broken, the whole ship will need to be inspected for damages caused by the collision, and may need to be entirely rebuilt depending on what if anything is broken below deck
@@MarkRose1337 Do we know if the Carrier sounded an alarm, giving people a chance to get off the brig? Yes, so, I guess they'll be lucky if it's back for summer 26.
I love your channel Sal! I discovered it after the bridge incident earlier this year. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and keeping us up to date on what's going on with shipping!
wow as a local thanks for this fantastic detailed analysis of our local events
1:40 At risk of pedantry, three masts square-rigged at the foremast and fore-aft rigged at the main and mizzenmast makes her a barquentine not a brigantine.
And I didn't see any lateen sails.
@@beachbum77979Gaff-rigged.
Yeah she’s rigged as a three-masted barquentine, though the lateen sails are not “long lateens” like on other vessels.
A Barquentine is vessel with three or more masts, with the foremast square-rigged and the others fore-and-aft rigged.
* Fun info some of the “long lateens” could span length + of the vessel lashing several spars together to make the yard. (Long lateen is somewhat of colloquial term as when referring to vessels from that long ago different terms were used for similar items from different cultures ie Arab - Mediterranean- Dutch )
One thing hopefully we all can agree on is
Fair winds and following seas ⛵️
Was captain obvious taken when you created your account?
He's been promoted to admiral now that he's pointed this out.
It was a bit of a shock seeing the STS Leewin damaged - I have had many day trips onboard her, hopefully she will be repaired and operational again
Thanks for the update. The weather would be a factor but it wasn’t as bad as it’s sometimes gets in winter. A squall did come through at that time.
Another tidbit. The pilots were coming off a strike, which is probably why the ship was waiting off the coast.
Oh buoy.
Oh buoy, indeed!
I wouldn't be surprised if that strike, and the delay it probably caused, has led to a tense or even unprofessional atmosphere on the bridge of the Maersk Shekou.
To be clear it was't the pilots on strike it was the pilot boat drivers and the Port Controllers in the Port control tower.
The wind got them, Australia has crazy wind patterns at this time of year and I suspect a gust got the ship and the pilots and tugs did not respond in time. I am sure the Leeuwin will be repaired ASAP.
You the man, Sal. Keep up the good work my brother.
Thankful for your honest straight forward reporting.
I grew up in Fremantle and the port alway fascinated me. Watching your channel has confirmed that 'there is usually much more to something than what meets the eye'. Moving the large ships around in a relatively small area of water must take considerable skill and experience.
Whilst a busy port, this is the first significant mishap that I know of that happened there in at least 50-ish years (and I wasn't old enough to pay attention before that).
Thanks for your very interesting videos.
People kept saying that the ship that hit the bridge in Baltimore should have had tugs but here we have a case where a ship with four tugs still did a lot of damage.
A very good point!
6 people died and it’s going to take 2 years and cost 1.5-1.9 billion to rebuild the Baltimore bridge.
The Leeuwin cost to build in 1986 was 3.7 million so 10.6 million in todays money. And a few extra million for the museum repairs? So it’s not a lot compared to billions.
Without the tugs limiting the impact the two people on board the Leeuwin may have been a lot worse off. Who knows if tugs would have changed anything in Baltimore but I reckon it’s better to have them there to try to help than nothing.
@@upsidedownnugget9531 at the speed the Dalia normally traveled going by the Baltimore bridge would have put tugs at rigs. Tugs are designed for slow speeds.
This is infuriating and heartbreaking.
Are ships out to break all nice things?
Great coverage as always Sal. AMSA is the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. ATSB will also conduct an investigation.
I find it incredible, a ship with 2024 technology and four tugboats could not see or locate a 250ft sailing ship in front of it.
Spot on incompetence combined with technology still adds up to incompetence. The captain of the container ship should be accountable but is probably out of Australian waters already.
It could not make a turn, location is not problem
@@zorbakaput8537Australia is not that incompetent.
or museum. or pier...
this is the species that thinks it can have a colony on mars .
Great report Sal, being a Western Australian local it’s good to see your analysis. Given the same company operates the vessel and tugs I suggest they have some financial liability along with the pilots. It will be interesting to see the results of the enquiry.
Probably be awhile before we get even a prelim investigation, hopefully changes get made so it doesn't happen again. Solely blaming the weather isn't good enough
In my unschooled opinion, certain classes of ship are basically unseaworthy right from the jump, and large container ships come under that heading. They are involved in numerous
accidents. They seem unable to maneuver properly, unless they are well out to sea. They
are top heavy, for obvious reasons. Their hulls and cargo are so large, that they are prone
to the caprices of wind and wave. In a sense, they are hardly vessels at all, but more like grotesquely oversized barges. They frequently lose containers overboard, and those containers become a hazard to shipping.
They are often flagged in countries of convenience, with problems in the areas of crewing and machinery. They may be an efficient way to move large volumes of cargo, but they
have little else to recommend them.
Yes, AND for many reasons, there are a lot of them, leading to many incidents.
And you like cheap food and goods....therefore all the above apply and it's a minimum risk.
Wow! I certainly would not want to be either her Master or the Pilot(s) on board. The log entry is still, I believe, "Master's orders, Pilot's advice"
@@pierremainstone-mitchell8290
The Captain was "forklift certified".
After Maersk fires him, he'll go work for some airline
@@blaydCA LOL! Nicely put indeed!
A friend of mine learnt her craft on the Leewuin. Going on that ship during her highschool years and discovering her love for sailing absolutely set her up for life. Never saw the ship myself, but knowing what it did for her, my heart is hurting seeing this gorgeous ship in such a sad state.
I'm so glad the two crew members haven't sustained permanent or life changing injuries. Understandably shaken up and dealing with emotional consequences though.
What about the 8 Knot Speed limit in the Fremantle inner harbour? Ive been through there many times with other ships coming and going, and they never follow the speed limits. those things take so long to stop they should be held to the limits at least as much as the speed limit is enforced on the other smaller boats! Yes Leeuwin Foundation is fund raising to get the repairs done but its also about time these big shipping companies are forced to pay when they hit bridges, or other vessels!
Learning a lot about shipping from your channel, thank you, from Mission Beach Far North Queensland Australia 👍
Hey up mate nice pert of the world one of my sister's lives there
Thanks for always being on top of things.
I am wondering that two local pilots messed things up so badly. These guys are captains, know the port exactly and have done this countless times before. Bad weather might affect a foreign crew but pilots with their extensive knowledge of the port are less affected by low visibility.
The thing of it is the age of sail old boy, it's still the age of sail. If they had been careless, really careless a flimsy would have been fish food. Disappointing is not the same as dead in the water. Sofly sofly cossee money.
The pilots have probably done the same route hundreds if not thousands of times and had no issues. Complacency causes grave errors unfortunately
And since this ship was a regular visitor, an established SOP might have had more weight.
I think the "student driver" was driving the Maersk ship!
❤Thanks Sal!❤
A midshipman''s hope.
I had a most amazing 2 weeks on the STS Leeuwin while in high school in the 80s. We sailed straight out into a storm and then down the coast, meeting up with a RAN submarine. Sad news, but she will be rebuilt with Maersk hopefully paying the bill.
Wikipedia describes a brigantine as "a two-masted sailing vessel [not three] with a fully square-rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast)." No lateen sails here. The two aft sails are gaff rigged. And there are no large triangular sails that I can see. The three sails forward look small.
Yeah, this vessel is technically a barquentine not a brigantine.
@@MotoNomad350 Excuse me I thought a bark was a four master square rigged. I am going to wait for the master to clear it up rather than trust wikedpoedos.
@@michaelmcneil4168 Well, the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Nova Scotia, the website for the Pride of Baltimore, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, all say that a barquentine can have thee or more masts.
Excellent map work. I had no idea such maps are available. Thanks!
From someone who lives in Perth, we have had some huge winds & rain overnight in the past couple of days. If memory serves, the Leeuwin is based on/is a replica of a "Dutch galleon that encountered south-west Australia in 1622"
Thanks for your video, Sal. I'm in Melbourne and the entire East Coast of Australia had been absolutely hammered by strong winds the last few days. Only found your channel after the Dali but always look forward to new clips and really appreciate the work you do. Cheers, Dan
40 plus years ago a container ship came into a port in Queensland having a mast and parts of sail entangled in one of the anchors . Never found out where it happened and who got run over.
Obviously they should have checked for missing yachts and correlated the results.
@@jeremyhares979 long time ago .vast oceans and limited electronics. Where and what country of origin do yo start .Way back then we sometimes departed countries without telling authorities who was on board.
You've clearly found an information gap in our world that needed filling. I personally have no connection to the shipping industry (aside from being a consumer), but you provide a fascinating look at an area of industry that previously got very little attention. Thank you!
Thanks Ken. That means a great deal.
I can bet the ship slowed down too late and then couldn’t turn, because of no water around the rudder. Four tugs couldn’t do the job? This entrance is very narrow. I’ve been there myself with a large ship which had a blackout right there. We were lucky and nothing happened, as we got power back nearly right away. As you pointed out she came in too hot and should have started the turn earlier, like in the earlier instance. I wonder if the tugs didn’t actually contributed to the accident.
I think you are correct sir !
Great informative video Sal, followed you for ages. Leeuwin is a loved vessel here in WA. Wind really gets up in Freo so could be a big factor as these ships are huge .Thanks for all you do
11:05 Something else is different here besides the approach speed. The 30 Aug track entered the channel left of the channel's centerline and maintained a heading to reach the centerline just about the time it should have started the turn to port. This would have required the port turn to last longer to reach the desired heading after the turn was completed compared to previous approaches. If they used the usual helm orders to make the turn, the ship would have naturally swung wide around the turn because their entry into the turn would have been on an inappropriate heading for "normal" operations.
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Can you imagine the guys that were on the Svitzer Falcon, I can see them suffering PTSD issues, considering the position they were in.
Leeuwin is a beautifull ship. Such a shame and sad to see her damaged like that.
Had the pleasure of being on deck for a few hrs with my dad at the wheel a couple months before his passing 6th oct , 96.
One of his wishes was to go sailing (hed been running a cray fishing business off the West Aussie coast since the 70's).
4 hrs at sea with him, seeing that huge smile of pleasure as he ran her along with the wind was well worth the few hundred for cruise tickets.
4 large tugs and 1 harbor pilot working against a strong wind warning issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Perth. Strong winds often lash the WA coast from the North West with the arrival of cold fronts in winter. This was not unexpected weather it was a risk taken to maintain the ships schedule coming off the back of recent industrial action in the port.
The river is also flowing at a rate,at this time of the year, that also would of contributed to the difficulty of turning. They actually can see squalls that are going to hit and precisely at what time, with all the technology they have at their disposal.
2 pilots Sal stated
Thanks Sal. I live in Durban South Africa and the Habour Pilots are taken to and from vessels via a helicopter. We used to have restaurants right on the egde of entrance channel before they widened it, so one could see the helicopter in action. So I have always been curious as to what the Pilot actually does on board the ship, as this incident seems to indicate a variation in how the ship was maneuvered. It would be nice to have a video on this topic. ❤
Excellent analysis. Like the side by side tracks.
Thanks Sal for your indepth reports......... always love watching
I hope the two hurt are going to be ok (and the Leeuwin can be fixed), everybody gets to see home again, glad for that. Not sure that bigger is better.
That containership is not that large. Large is now more than double that size.
@@tmog1000 I was going by what appeared to be to much for the tugs to handle.
@@russell3380 Yes I agree. I don't understand why they didn't tell the ship to stand off for a few hours.
I'm absolutely gutted by the damage to Leeuwin II. I had the trip of a lifetime on her in 2006 from Darwin to Broome over 12 days. This was followed by 6 months weekend volunteering as a deck hand for fund raising family day trips. The Leeuwin does great work giving troubled youth experience of the beauty of the wilderness coasts, other cultures and seamanship. For many the experience was life changing.
Many of the Leeuwin's fund raising voyages have been curtailed by some 'Nanny State' regulations, so I can believe that the organisation's fund would not be sufficient to complete necessary repairs. Yet W.A. is a wealthy state through mining, so I call upon the billionaire mining owners and share holders to dig deep for the funds and resources to make the Leeuwin II and its organisation bigger and better than ever. Some pro bono or, at least 'no win no fee' help from WA's legal profession in action against Maersk would not go amiss either,
Thank goodness no lives lost and thoughts are with the injured that is a massive amount of hardware coming down on deck i rig and raise the mast on my relatively small sailboat and its skechy if things go side ways I cant imagine that situation
Great report mate. Live in Perth beautifully city. My friends company were called to do the repair. Apparently the ship lost power to its engines. Not official reason but was initially thought to be the main reason it couldn't show itself down. It's been patched up enough to make it back to its port for full repairs. As for the bill. I'm sure Maersk can afford to fix it. Just lucky that it wasn't worse and thankfully the 2 injured weren't killed. I hope they make a full recovery.
Hey this is my hood.
We had some unusual, short sharp squalls that morning. But this looks like a steering gear fail?
Also the broken arm is misreported (as is often the way with our media) that lad was on night watch and got a puncture wound escaping after the impact. But should ok.
Also the Leeuwin is a Barquentine. A barque is 3 masts square rags in the front two masts. Barquentine is square rags on only the fore mast. A Brigantine has two masts with square rags on the foremast.
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Like a lot of Perth people have been on that on some school excursion or other many years ago. This hurts!
I thought it was for troubled teens to get some skills in responsibility..
@@ACDZ123 We didn't get to sail on it. Just a short tour together with other random museum history stuff I don't remember.
@teikoh5690 that would of been cool for a school excursion..this boat didn't exist when I was in school lol
Thanks for keeping us updated, Sal! You are the man!
I never thought about these huge ships coming into port, and what that can be like. I learned so much. One thing is the forces, the mass of the ship in the current.
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Yes they had to stay out for ages until the weather improved. I think it's worthy of note. He might go over that again in another video?
Well this turned out way more interesting than expected! I tuned in out of curiosity as I live not far from Fremantle. Didn’t expect such an in depth analysis and didn’t know that tracking data was available. The Leeuwin is berthed literally 50m (150ft) from where you catch the Ferry to Rottnest island. If you make the trip down our way make sure you do a day trip over to Rottnest. It’s a short 30min boat ride from Fremantle.
Thanks Sal, that is too bad. Gotta like sailing ships.
This was about 20mins before sunrise, it probably wasn't even all that dark. Makes no sense. But i just checked the weather and right at 6:20am local time it shows the wind picked up from to 18.5kmh to 46.3kmh WSW. Hopefully the repairs to Leeuwin don't take long
That would explain two things I saw in the tracking from Sal. The stern is offset to port (North) at the point the vessel would normally have had the bow on the port edge of the channel. Once they get the turn started the stern swings all the way into the pier. Strong wind would contribute to both of those phases with the Mersk being a larger *sail* area than the actual 3 master!
What it doesn't explain is why the bow wasn't on the port edge of the channel. In the older tracks it's well over before the physical bend in the route. I guess there might be some weather vaning effect keeping the ship straight? But with 4 tugs, 2 pilots and maybe even bow thrusters it can't just be blamed on the weather.
Fremantle has been having several strikes of pilot crews over August, They claim it was settled but I wonder if there was still some resentment brewing on shift times and possible crew inexperience?
There has been a lot of brown stuff hitting the fan this month regarding the main unions across Australia.
I heard the same thing too,im wondering what's going on with the W.A Pilots?.
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It was the pilot boat drivers and the Port controllers on strike not the pilots.
This one made my ex husband emotional. He worked on the Leeuwin when he was a teen and would go to Fremantle every so often just to look at it. This hit him right in the feels 😢
Thank you Sal
Sal, I always enjoy your videos but allow me to correct you on the classification of STS Leeuwin. She is a 3-masted sailing vessel with square rigging on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigging on the main and mizzen masts, making her a barquentine. (Brigantine would be 2-masted, square rig on the foremast and fore-and-aft on the main) The term "lateen" is also not appropriate - this denotes a triangular sail of which the yard extends past the supporting mast, usually at an angle of around 45 degrees. This is a feature of many oriental sailing vessels and was also commonly used on full-rigged ships (on the mizzen mast) until around 1700.
Maersk have not been bathing themselves in glory recently.
They have 672 ships in their fleet. Kinda impressive how infrequently they mess up.
The bridge accident in the US was not their ship. Just one they had chartered.
I expect them to pay for a full reconstruction of this sailing vessel.
But I'm not defending them beyond that. I only have 1 Mærsk stock 😂
The pictures of the Maersk ship in the harbor make it look enormous in the landscape.
I don’t know if the Aussies are fastidious about the pronunciation, but the Dutch “Leeuwin” is more like “Lay-v(w)in”. The “V” is somewhat between the English V and W in that part of Europe, a “soft V”.
We pronounce it as he does in the video. Never knew it wasn't right
Can't park there mate
At 12:23 with the speed difference between 7.7kn and the 9.2kn it means that the ship carries a movement energy in the latter case of more than 40% more since the movement energy is speed squared.
Earlier mentioning of the wind direction also plays a role and from what I understand it was from the southwest, and that in turn would have required the ship to counteract that during the approach, but as soon as the ship came behind the pier that deviation ended. Water currents could also play a role given the wind direction and the uneven pier extensions.
It also seems to me that the tug boats were late connecting with the ship given the conditions and speed of the ship.
So my thought here is that this is something that happened due to multiple factors involved.
That's just my thoughts on the matter given the information provided.
At 12:37 you can see that both tugs are aft of mearsk. The speed on eagle is 7,8 so probably reducing to positioning to slow down mearsk
That's really sad. All the skills and materials to build, fix or reproduce something like that are vanishing.
What's really sad is the 2 bots using the same picture in the comments.
1986 wasn’t that long ago. The skills are still available to rebuild her.
@@nmccw3245 Someone that was highly skilled at a task in 1986 has retired by now in most cases.
@@TheSzalkowskiBut look at the just completed rebuild of Tally Ho. The talent is out there.
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Hopefully they come out of retirement to help train the next generation which can be part of the sailing ships training legacy.
That type of skills set is a labor of love at any rate.
Thank you Sal. Freo is local to me and I really appreciate your technical views on this incident.
At least the incident is not in the Bab-el-Mandeb caused by the Houtis.
No but this container ship captain ran into a historic sailboat instead of a static bridge so he scores more difficulty points on the incompetence scale.
As so often happens, news from Western Australia doesn’t make it into our East Coast evening TV bulletins - as Sydney and Melbourne are 3 hours ahead of Perth & Fremantle (3 hours in the southern summer - when the Eastern States have daylight-saving, but not W.A.) (From Kym in Palmerston, near Darwin).
So 2 hrs then .it's not summer yet
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The vessels master, two pilots, and four tugs were all on duty. That perhaps suggests something went wrong beyond mere negligence. Maybe.
If the wind is on the Sheku's stern, does that mean that it was blowing water in the same direction? If so, would that have reduced the rudder's effectiveness?
I hope Leewin can be rerigged expeditiously, and I hope the injured crew recovers in short order.
Appreciate the quick report. I am in Melbourne, Australia.
Condolences
Go Slow, Look like a Pro
Go Fast, Look like an Ass
LOL
Slow is Pro…
Fast is Crash !
Agreed. However, sometimes going fast is the right thing to do to stop the wind and current from grabbing hold of the wessel.
@@Imnottheone79 Absolutely true from personal experience but don’t let facts get in the way of humor …LOL !
Considering they had four tugs on her idk if there was much else they could have done ?
@@jeremyhares979 From the data it would appear a slower approach and initiating the turn to port sooner was in order. But who was giving commands ? The pilot, the captain….a lot of questions but no answers which I am sure the investigation will answer….in theory anyway !
We have a container on that ship. Expecting delays and unhappy customers 😅
That must be the container that the dogs were crawling over 😅
Gaff rigged, not lateen.
She's got a bit of everything by the looks.
Thanks Sal. Great work as always.
Math information for mariners: The aft sails are quadrilateral in shape, not triangles. Triangles have three sides, not four sides.
Also: fog makes speed look slower than it actually is. Combine the fog with a tailwind, and the ship came in too hot.
Australia has universal health care, so the injured will be properly taken care of. It's not like the US where the government doesn't take any financial interest of the health of citizems.
You have no clue about US healthcare.
The United States government certainly does take a financial interest of the health of it's CORPORATE citizens.
Nothing but the best in fact.
Oh well...
There are fifty states and a few districts and cantons and protectorates and malcontentedmens' lands which makes for oodles of govt. to take a healthy healthcare interest in, a profoundly vast broadening of horizons in proactivitation. I don't know if Australia will be able to make Federal US healthcare before sharp-eyed parties looking at Australia turn it into what they want Australia to be.
@@mabyemabyenot I mean, other than the national financial analyses of the payment systems using hospital financial data, yeah, hardly anything.
Fascinating. Great info level. I wrote software for Maersk Line back in late 1990s. So amazing how much more info is available these days.
Machine Learning can take millions of port arrivals and help sound virtual horns early when a ship deviates from historically known "good, safe passage/arrival".
Please, keep producing content at this level - busy day, we ignore the typos and enjoy your content anyways.