The owner of the Brixham-registered scalloper that sank off the East Sussex coast in 2020 with the loss of two crew has been fined more than £100,000. Thirty-eight-year-old Robert Morley and Adam Harper, aged 26, died when the Joanna C…
A Ukrainian national has been charged with three counts of manslaughter following the deaths of the skipper and crew of the Jersey trawler L’Ecume II. The 18m trawler sank after a collision with a Condor ro-ro ferry, Commodore Goodwill, off…
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its report into the accidental discharge of a fire-extinguishing system onboard the beam trawler Resurgam PZ 1001 in Newlyn harbour on 15 November, 2019, which resulted in one fatality. Twenty-year-old apprentice engineer…
A man has died following an accident onboard the Peterhead-registered scalloper Honeybourne III PD 905 off the coast of Sussex. The incident, in the early hours of Saturday, 7 October, prompted a multi-agency response, with Newhaven RNLI’s Severn-class all-weather lifeboat…
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