A beautiful container liner meets a sad death.
Thank heavens all where safely evacuated and no major oil spill occurred.

MOL Comfort’s hull fracture originated at the bottom of the boxship, according to preliminary findings from Class NK. The finding was based on water incursion in the vessel’s dship at the beginning of the casualty, Japan’s class society said. The 8,110teu ship had been on its way from Singapore to Jeddah when it split in half in adverse weather in the Indian Ocean on 17 June. Gull strengths and loads at the time of the accident were assessed to investigate how the fracture occurred and progressed, it added. Weather, waves and cargo loading conditions from its previous voyages investigated to estimate the loads acting on the ship. ClassNK added that during inspections of its six sisters – MOL Creation, MOL Charisma, MOL Celebration, MOL Courage, MOL Competence and MOL Commitment – “buckling-type deformations measuring approximately 20mm in height were observed on the bottom shell plates in the vicinity of center line of midship area. “However, it remains unclear at this stage as to whether this type of deformation could have served as a trigger for the casualty,” ClassNK cautioned. Further structural investigations continue to determine whether similar deformations have occurred in other large boxships, it noted. In July, MOL Comfort owner and operator Mitsui OSK Lines appointed Lloyd's Register to join the inquiry as a technical consultant.

I would love to know approximately how many containers are lost per year on the high seas. I gather its quite a few?

My lovely ship. I've spent almost 1 year on board in two contracts. And she was my last one before I closed my sea service. I still can't believe that she died.

@ Peter Hartung. Thank you for the picture!

Stunning to see..

I don't think MOL will feature this pic. on next years callendar! mrdot.

They were pulling/towing it with tugs. Backwards or something like that..

All to no avail. All containers ended up visiting Capt Nemo.

No loss of life fortunately.... ship et al in very deep water.

Where was the forward section while all this was going on ?

The ship Technical Data above is incorrect...

Only half a ship shown here, so length around 158M only...

Joking of course just glad nobody lost their life with this sad incident where everything went to visit Capt Nemo at the bottom of the sea.

Regards,
tvtech

Looks like containers fell overboard or were hanging there.

What is the cause to the damage at the rear of her?