One month later: Inland tanker WALDHOF near the "Loreley"-Rock of the river Rhine with a full load of sulphuric acid (2.377 tons). This happened on 13th January 2011 at 4.42 a.m. Two men of the crew of 4 died. The wheelhouse was fully destroyed whilst tanker was bottom up. Photo captured from St. Goarshausen (Rhine) on 14.1.2011. Acid pumped into the river Rhine due to danger of hydrogen explosion of the tanker. Ship lifted by three floating cranes of Mammoet (NL) on 13.2.2011. WALDHOF was repaired at Duisburg and renamed into AURIGA. Rhine closed for any shipping from 13.1. until 14.2.2011. Cause of accident was wrong filling of the acid tanks with bad stability.
Built 1993 by Damen shipyards b.v., Hardinxveld (NL), LxBxD 110,00 m x 10,50 m x 3,15 m, 2.426 tdw. Owner Lehnkering Rhein-Fracht, Mannheim.

Copyright by Peter Hartung (PHa).