Fire-Hit Ro-Ro Towed Back to New York

The U.S. Coast Guard and native companies in New York had been working Wednesday to extinguish a hearth aboard a Panamanian-flagged roll-on/roll-off vessel at Homeport Pier in Staten Island.

According to the Coast Guard, the 360-foot MV Grey Shark departed New York on March 11 certain for the Caribbean Sea with 13 crewmembers. On Saturday, March 14th, one of many vessel’s two engines failed, inflicting the Master of the ship to make the choice to return to New York for repairs.

At roughly 4 p.m. Sunday, the vessel skilled issue with its second engine that brought on a hearth to interrupt out within the cargo areas of the vessel. Power was finally restored to one of many vessel’s engines and the fireplace was contained by the shipboard firefighting system, however the fireplace continued to smolder.

After receiving help from the USCGC Seneca crew and a McAllister Towing tug roughly 180 miles southeast of Cape May, New Jersey on Monday, a tow was rigged for the Grey Shark so the broken vessel may very well be returned to New York for inspection.

As of Wednesday morning, the Grey Shark was at Homeport Pier in Staten Island with the fireplace nonetheless smoldering, the place it was boarded FDNY crews.

FDNY officers have since declared the fireplace to be utterly extinguished.

The reason behind the fireplace and the lack of engine energy is beneath investigation.