Petrel has fallen down

[Svanen]

“Major rescue operation as ship tips”.

Sounds like there were quite a few casualties.

 

[Black Sox]

See now, if Dug had been involved, this wouldn't have happened...

 

[Sail4beer]

25 people injured😲

 

[MiddayGun]

Serious injuries as ship topples over at Leith dock in Edinburgh

A number of people are believed to have been seriously injured after a large ship keeled over in an Edinburgh dockyard.A large-scale rescue operation was launch

www.thetimes.co.uk

"Five ambulances, an air ambulance, three trauma teams, a special operations team and three paramedic response units are at the scene along with fire and rescue crews. Coastguard teams were sent from Fisherrow, South Queensferry and Kinghorn at about 9.30am."

 

[longy]

Wonder how the cribbing failed

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

Wonder how the cribbing failed

probably weren't using any norwegian wood

 

[Albatros]

that will buff out, and it's clearly still in the environment

 

[Liquid]

Did someone bump the only starboard support?

Did it blow over?

How...?
From STV News link:

 

[Zonker]

High winds were mentioned in a BBC report.

I have no idea if blocking calcs worry about sideways wind loading in drydocks. Usually you have such high sides of the dock it wouldn't be an issue.

Draft = 7.65m according to wiki and it has Z-drives so that draft is about right for that size of vessel with Z-drives. It sure looks high in the dock.

 

[Liquid]

The helipad makes it look top heavy in the OP.

Maybe it got to some wind induced harmonic resonance and the hull 'hummed' off the supports...

 

[Crash]

this pic of VOS Passion, with less then 7m draft looks makes it look like the dry dock is only maybe 8 or 9 m deep? Or did they have to block Petrel higher to maintain clearance around the Helo Pad at the bow?

UK Dry Dock Specialists - Dales Marine

Dry Docks, ship repair and ship engineering & maintenance services in Scotland and the UK.

www.dalesmarine.co.uk

 

[Canal Bottom]

How many mobile marine cranes in the world can lift that?

 

[Laser1]

How many mobile marine cranes in the world can lift that?

That'll probably be a hydraulic jacking jobbie if the damage isn't too great. Apart from the SB side the bottom may have a dent or two as well.

Edit: or flood the dock and see what happens

 

[Talchotali]

 

[dogwatch]

High winds were mentioned in a BBC report.

Nothing exceptional AFAIK.

 

[chuso007]

Did she use a silicon based antifoul like this one??

 

[chuso007]

That one killed the shipyard...

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

Sal from "What's Going on With Shipping?" leans in on Petrel; looks at the calamity from a different slant:

 

[P_Wop]

'Back in the day' they used a series of large lumber props from the ship's side to the edges, or steps of the drydock. That seems to have gone out of fashion. Here's Aquitania.

 

[SloopJonB]

Can't they just fill the drydock and float the thing?

It doesn't seem to be that far over.