{"id":51586,"date":"2025-11-27T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=51586"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:46:00","slug":"uk-cargo-ship-finnwave-with-engine-fire-in-the-aermel-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/uk-frachtschiff-finnwave-mit-motorenbrand-im-aermelkanal\/","title":{"rendered":"UK - Cargo ship \"Finnwave\" with engine fire in the English Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A volunteer lifeboat crew from the UK's Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) came to the aid of Finnish shipping company Finnlines' RoRo vessel after the ship made a distress call in the early morning of 11 November 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51590\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51590\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B2_FINNWAVE_Bild_Finnlines-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The FINNWAVE during the loading process. Picture: Shipping company Finnlines\" width=\"379\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B2_FINNWAVE_Bild_Finnlines-300x200.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B2_FINNWAVE_Bild_Finnlines-1024x683.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B2_FINNWAVE_Bild_Finnlines-768x512.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B2_FINNWAVE_Bild_Finnlines-18x12.jpg 18w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B2_FINNWAVE_Bild_Finnlines.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The FINNWAVE during the loading process. Picture: Shipping company Finnlines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The cause was a fire in the engine room around 20 kilometres south-east of Eastbourne\/East Sussex. When the lifeboat crew arrived in moderate seas and winds of around 5 Beaufort, the crew of the \"Finnwave\" (33,800 tonnes, ice class 1A) had successfully extinguished the fire, but the 217-metre-long freighter had lost propulsion and dropped anchor. The lifeboat remained on site until the anchor had been successfully lowered and then returned to the station. The coastguard remained in radio contact with the \"Finnwave\" during the repair work. No crew members were injured.<\/p>\n<p>kdk, gCaptain<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eine freiwillige Rettungsboot-Crew der britischen Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) ist dem RoRo-Schiff der finnischen Reederei Finnlines zu Hilfe gekommen, nachdem das Schiff am fr\u00fchen Morgen des 11. November 2025 einen Notruf abgesetzt hatte. Grund war ein Brand im Maschinenraum etwa 20 Kilometer s\u00fcd\u00f6stlich von Eastbourne\/East Sussex. Als die Rettungsbootbesatzung bei m\u00e4\u00dfigem Seegang und Windst\u00e4rken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,486,42],"tags":[8854,11238,11239,237,11243,11240,11241,11242],"class_list":["post-51586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schifffahrt-news","category-headlines","category-news","tag-aermelkanal","tag-finnwave","tag-frachtschiff-brand","tag-maritime-sicherheit","tag-maschinenraumfeuer","tag-motorenbrand","tag-rnli","tag-seenotrettung-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51612,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51586\/revisions\/51612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}