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there's a slightly incomplete report here

Basically, the chart survey was very old and didn't show the dredged channel. The 3rd mate would have read the port entry guide when preparing the passage plan and know the channel was 23m deep. The chart showed and area of 19.5m, which is blue, and 20.5m water to the side which is white. The captain appears to have know better, and was not challenged.
I have interesting discussions with 3rd mates at São Luis every time I inspect a ship there.
I was up there on a very similar ship a couple of weeks ago and I can confirm the Admiralty chart has now been updated.
 
there's a slightly incomplete report here

Basically, the chart survey was very old and didn't show the dredged channel. The 3rd mate would have read the port entry guide when preparing the passage plan and know the channel was 23m deep. The chart showed and area of 19.5m, which is blue, and 20.5m water to the side which is white. The captain appears to have know better, and was not challenged.
I have interesting discussions with 3rd mates at São Luis every time I inspect a ship there.
I was up there on a very similar ship a couple of weeks ago and I can confirm the Admiralty chart has now been updated.
thx, i was wondering how it could have grounded (and was hoping you'd have some info :cool: )
 
I like a Nelson. Not everything has to be pretty, as the Italians thought. It wouldn't even have to shoot at a Zara, it would just die in shame of sharing the same sea with a Nelson.
 
I had the unexpected pleasure of meeting the USS United States off the Bishop Rock as she completed her record run in July 1952 and a fine ship she looked too. It was obvious that she'd been driven hard through weather because her smoke stacks were coated half way up with salt. I have a vague memory that she'd passed south-east bound between the Scillies and Land's End. Surely that can't have been right?
 
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