Mexican Navy tall ship collides with Brooklyn Bridge

[dapaterson]

Injuries reported. But as a breaking story, remember, early information is often incomplete or incorrect.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mexican-ship-new-york-city-brooklyn-bridge-crash-1.7538184

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Crap and she is such a lovely ship

 

[Cloud Cover]

Lol. Who let my mother in law drive the ship in full reverse!

¡Mierda! ¡Otra vez no! ¡Oh, no!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1923910988941689302

 

[Navy_Pete]

Wow, that's terrible, hope everyone is okay.

Quick google shows Brooklyn Bridge clearance at somewhere around 130-150 feet, with the main mast alone on the Cuauhtémoc coming in at 147 feet. No Bueno.

 

[brihard]

Oh man, you can see some crew high up in the masts hanging on for dear life.

 

[FSTO]

2 dead as per CNN. Looks like it would have been the sailors manning the spars. (My sail ship mast ID capabilities is suspect)

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Your capabilities are ok, FSTO.

That accident took out all three Tops: Mizzen, main and Fore in order. Looks like a telegraph failure: engine telegraph stuck at full/half astern and not enough time to communicate the problem to the engine room so they can override it.

R.I.P. sailors.

 

[FSTO]

Your capabilities are ok, FSTO.

That accident took out all three Tops: Mizzen, main and Fore in order. Looks like a telegraph failure: engine telegraph stuck at full/half astern and not enough time to communicate the problem to the engine room so they can override it.

R.I.P. sailors.

I also wonder if they departed on the flood tide? But your assessment of telegraph failure is also well founded. The speed she was going astern seemed to be more than just current.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I also wonder if they departed on the flood tide? But your assessment of telegraph failure is also well founded. The speed she was going astern seemed to be more than just current.

I wondered about the flood tide too, but dismissed it for three reasons: First, that was an apparent high rate of speed for tidal effect; second: if it was the tide and she was trying to check the drift, you would expect to see propeller wash behind her from the engines engaged in ahead position and none is apparent; third, and this is a personal observation from my sailing in tug boats around Quebec city where we have the river flow and tidal flows: when tide comes in, it flows on top of the river flow (about top ten feet) but the river flow continues beneath, so shallow draft vessels are affected by the tidal flow, while deeper draft vessels are still affected by both and so the tidal effect is much less on deep draft vessels. She has a draft of 18 feet so I would not expect her to be affected so much by the tide.

P.S. In Quebec city, the river flow was so strong (5to 6 knots constant terms) that for deep draft vessels, it was still the dominant factor even during the strongest rising tides. If you stopped two vessels side by side in front of Fleet School Quebec - one a small craft and the other a deep sea - at the height of the rising tide, the small craft would have been pushed up river towards Montreal while the deep sea would be pushed down river towards Ile d'Orleans.

 

[kratz]

Video from a different point of view.

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Looks like they missed hitting the wall and finally regained control at the end of the video.

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Yes. Looks like the engine engages ahead around the 37 second mark of that video. Also looks like there is small vessel by its side, which looks like a tour boat, but it doesn't look like its helping (or hindering either).

 

[FSTO]

Video from a different point of view.

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Looks like they missed hitting the wall and finally regained control at the end of the video.

Am I the arse for noticing the woman in full Burka running away with two kids?

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Watching the video again (no, not for people in burkas) the loss of momentum is rather sudden and accompanied by a good swing of the stern away from the wharf. They may have checked the way off her by throwing the starboard anchor - if so, that's good seamanship.

 

[Good2Golf]

Your capabilities are ok, FSTO.

That accident took out all three Tops: Mizzen, main and Fore in order. Looks like a telegraph failure: engine telegraph stuck at full/half astern and not enough time to communicate the problem to the engine room so they can override it.

R.I.P. sailors.

By this video, it appears that the sailors on the upper mainmast fared the worst…

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[childs56]

That is a bad incident. RIP to the Sailors who lost their lives. speedy recovery the remainder who were injured.

 

[OldSolduer]

My condolences to the families and friends of the fallen. RIP sailors.