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Two Rescues by Klyne Tugs in 24 Hours
01 Sep 2006
Tugs from the fleet of Klyne Tugs (Lowestoft) Ltd secured two Lloyds Open Form salvage contracts within 24 hours in the prevailing high winds in the English Channel and North Sea on the 3rd and 4th of this month.
While on passage to an assignment in the North Sea, in the early hours of the Monday morning, the anchor handling tug Anglian Earl was called to the aid of the Belgian trawler Yentl, lying disabled in heavy seas. As the photograph shows the experienced tug master made good use of his vessel's manoeuvrability to get in close to the trawler to enable a towing connection to be made quickly and efficiently. Yentl had a total machinery blackout and as the picture shows, damaged fishing gear. With the trawler safely in tow the convoy commenced a 24 hour voyage through a heavy swell to Den Helder under a Lloyds Open Form (LOF) salvage agreement.
The previous afternoon the tug Anglian Monarch, operating in her role as Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) in the Dover Strait, was tasked to assist the tug Cumbrae, in trouble with the barge Osprey Warrior off Ramsgate. Cumbrae's towline had parted and whilst picking up the barge's emergency towline in the usual way, fouled one of its rudders and immobilised the tug and tow. Anglian Monarch took the barge in tow to prevent it drifting, enabling Cumbrae to get underway under her own power at slow speed.
Anglian Monarch was contracted under a commercial LOF to take the tug and barge in tow to Dover harbour.
Without the ETV's assistance the barge was in danger of being driven ashore in Force 7 winds somewhere off the North Foreland. Cumbrae and Osprey Warrior were in the process of delivering a new and very large crawler crane from Portsmouth to Newcastle.
MJInformation No: 22265
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