Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Fire On TCSG-301

TCSG - 301 in her better days
Undersecretariat For Maritime Affairs announced that a fire broke out in the engine room of Coast guard vessel TCSG-301 on 4 February 2010 2011.

The fire started while the boat was on sea off the coast of Zonguldak. Another coast guard vessel TCSG-128 help extinguishing the fire. The extend of the damage and the cause of the fire is unknown.

TCSG-301,  is a Kaan 33 class patrol craft built at Yonca Onuk shipyard in Istanbul. Turkish Coast Guard operates 13 of these vessels and ordered 9 more. They are build of advanced composite material. Thus the damage the fire has caused could be serious.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

You mean "on 4 February 2011" I think !