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The Ever Level was a container ship that caught fire in November 1983 after a collision on the Lower Elbe.
history
The container ship was built in 1979/80 as Ever Light at the Onomichi Zosen shipyard in Onomichi , Japan , with hull number 290 on behalf of the Taiwanese shipping company Evergreen Marine . The ship, which was launched under the Liberia flag, was one of a series of six in the Ever Level class. As early as 1983, the shipping company renamed the ship Ever Level .
On November 25, 1983, the Ever Level destined for Hamburg collided on the Lower Elbe with the outgoing Itapagé , a general cargo ship built in 1976 in Brazil. The collision killed two Ever Level sailors who were unlashing the containers at the time, and six others were injured. The British overseas pilot jumped out of his chamber, down three decks and was later rescued from the ship by helicopter. The ship, which had loaded large amounts of fireworks, lost 27 40-foot containers in the collision, nine of which were lying on the deck of the enemy. The structure and parts of the container cargo caught fire. The burning container ship was then anchored in Neufeld-Reede not far from Brunsbüttel , where the fire fighting work on the burning ship dragged on until December 1st. The Ever Level was then moved to Hamburg, where the cargo, which was still partly burning, was extinguished.
Then the ship was repaired and put back into motion. It was sold to Hermes Maritime in 2001 and initially operated under the name LT Prudent and from 2003 as Poseidon VII in the Asia-America service of Technomar Shipping until it was taken out of service in October 2008 and sold for demolition. The Poseidon VII reached Chittagong on October 27, 2008 , where it was stranded for scrapping on November 14.
meaning
Although the rest of the ship's career was relatively uneventful, the Ever Level case is still one of the most famous ship accidents on the Elbe, also due to the great media interest at the time. At the time, the collision prompted the North Sea disaster control team to be convened . The accident continues to be a case study that has been mentioned again and again on the subject of the risks involved in the transport of hazardous substances in containers.
technology
The superstructure and machinery were arranged about three quarters aft. The propulsion of the ship consisted of a two-stroke diesel engine.
literature
- The inferno of flames in front of Cuxhaven . In: Schiffahrt international , issue 1/1984, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, pp. 20/21, 31.
Web links
- Image of the burning ship
- POSEIDON VII
- Fire of the container ship "Ever Level" (1983) (archive recordings of the DGzRS)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Ship data in the Miramar Ship Index (English, not available online) ID = 7900819 ( Memento from December 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Small request to the federal government regarding the safety and emergency concept for the North and Baltic Seas (PDF; 86 kB)
- ^ Interrogations of the Pallas investigation committee of the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag on February 22, 1999 (PDF; 483 kB)
- ↑ Björn Riecke: Investigation of cargo fires on container ships ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.8 MB)
- ↑ Klaus Ridder: GEBE-Unfallmerkblatt 9 in: The Hazardous Goods Commissioner , Vol. 16, No. 10, October 2005, p. 9 (PDF; 79 kB)
