🚨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 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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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
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 😅
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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"
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.
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 ⛵️
I have known many people who did training days or seasons on that ship. Not that I stand for some of the politicised things they espouse, but it's a great shame to damage such a fine vessel.
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.
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.
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!
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 😢
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.
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.
I worked on Leeuwin as an apprentice Boilermaker, helping to bend up the ship frames in 1985 at ASI and it was not windy that morning the ship hit the Leeuwin what a cover up of incompetence this is .
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.
I really had no idea how shipping is so complicated until I started watching your channel, Thank You for giving us the news and educating us. Much love ❤️💙💕💜💘
You are the Best Sal !! Wow..... that Falcon Tug must have sweat Bullitts !! Very sad for the damaged Sailing Vessel, but at least no fatality and rebuildable.
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
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.
So much more informative than the government broadcasterwho did a very superficial report. Been a bad week for Femantle as their football team just missed out on the AFL finals. Subbed. Thanks.
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.
Shit. I've sailed on the Leeuwin, so has my sister. She's a beautiful sailing boat, absolutely powers in the Fremantle doctor (sea breeze). Gazing at the container ships as they dock was part of the adventure.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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. ❤
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.
My supervisor at work, was in HongKong harbor some years ago, and they saw one of the large container ships sail, with the entire "mast" of a sailing vessel stucK in her anchor chain, up front. They put out an alert, but after many days, there were no responses for anybody missing. Some of the vessels have a 15-to-20+foot bow wave coming off, and they probably struck the sailor dead on, and hoisted it right up, like a spear, into the chain. No missing reports after one year later.
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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Wow very informative & interesting, I'm from Perth & heard this on the radio at work, yes it has been unusually stormy lately, of all the things to hit, it had to be the beautiful Leeuwin & those poor guys onboard, good to hear they will be ok & other things can be repaired.
🚨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.
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.
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
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.
@@ThatSockmonkey 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,
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
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!
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 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.
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
Thanks for the awesome update, local media here are pretty clueless. Leeuwin is a much loved and well known vessel here in WA.
From a retired Master Mariner based in Melbourne this is a great report.
Thank you Sal
@@metalmanglingmariner Thanks Capt!
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....
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
wow as a local thanks for this fantastic detailed analysis of our local events
Thankful for your honest straight forward reporting.
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.
You the man, Sal. Keep up the good work my brother.
Thanks!
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.
Thanks mate, as a Freo local, good to get the insight
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
This is a great report.
Thank you Sal 🦘Enjoy your cuppa ☕
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 😅
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
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.
Thanks for your consideration from an Aussie viewer.
Great coverage as always Sal. AMSA is the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. ATSB will also conduct an investigation.
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.
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.
Thanks
Thanks for always being on top of things.
I did a three day sailing course/experience on the Leeuwin back in the mid '90s. Sad to see it like this.
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
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.
This is infuriating and heartbreaking.
Are ships out to break all nice things?
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
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
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.
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.
Just sent you an email with the Wind at the time..nothing out of the ordinary for Freo
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"
Excellent map work. I had no idea such maps are available. Thanks!
Thanks for keeping us updated, Sal! You are the man!
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 ⛵️
He's been promoted to admiral now that he's pointed this out.
I have known many people who did training days or seasons on that ship. Not that I stand for some of the politicised things they espouse, but it's a great shame to damage such a fine vessel.
Excellent analysis. Like the side by side tracks.
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.
I think the "student driver" was driving the Maersk ship!
❤Thanks Sal!❤
A midshipman''s hope.
An icon of Western Australia. Hope it can be rebuilt.
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.
Thanks Sal for your indepth reports......... always love watching
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!
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 😢
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.
Great job putting this together so fast. Quality video as well.
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
I worked on Leeuwin as an apprentice Boilermaker, helping to bend up the ship frames in 1985 at ASI and it was not windy that morning the ship hit the Leeuwin what a cover up of incompetence this is .
That's a task boilermakers take on? Interesting trade.
I fitted the engines and aux equipment when new.With ASI😂
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 really had no idea how shipping is so complicated until I started watching your channel, Thank You for giving us the news and educating us. Much love ❤️💙💕💜💘
Thanks Sal, that is too bad. Gotta like sailing ships.
You are the Best Sal !! Wow..... that Falcon Tug must have sweat Bullitts !! Very sad for the damaged Sailing Vessel, but at least no fatality and rebuildable.
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
Thank you Sal. Freo is local to me and I really appreciate your technical views on this incident.
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.
So much more informative than the government broadcasterwho did a very superficial report. Been a bad week for Femantle as their football team just missed out on the AFL finals. Subbed. Thanks.
Thank you Sal
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.
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!
Shit. I've sailed on the Leeuwin, so has my sister. She's a beautiful sailing boat, absolutely powers in the Fremantle doctor (sea breeze). Gazing at the container ships as they dock was part of the adventure.
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.
Thanks Sal. Great work as always.
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 .
Absolutely great summation of the events.
I knew where to come for this info when I heard the Leeuwin had been struck.
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.
Excellent review. I learn so much every time I watch your channel. Great stuff.
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.
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. ❤
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 !
My supervisor at work, was in HongKong harbor some years ago, and they saw one of the large container ships sail, with the entire "mast" of a sailing vessel stucK in her anchor chain, up front. They put out an alert, but after many days, there were no responses for anybody missing. Some of the vessels have a 15-to-20+foot bow wave coming off, and they probably struck the sailor dead on, and hoisted it right up, like a spear, into the chain. No missing reports after one year later.
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
Late night video Thank you Sal.
Can you imagine the guys that were on the Svitzer Falcon, I can see them suffering PTSD issues, considering the position they were in.
Very good analysis Sal, thanks for covering this for us.
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?
Wow very informative & interesting, I'm from Perth & heard this on the radio at work, yes it has been unusually stormy lately, of all the things to hit, it had to be the beautiful Leeuwin & those poor guys onboard, good to hear they will be ok & other things can be repaired.