ZHONG CHI SHENG HAI

• GroundingSerious
  Feb 26, 2003NEAR BUOY D-82, BATISCAN, ST.L. RIVER, QUE., QUEBEC (QC)

  On 26 February 2003, the Great Century was proceeding in fair weather down the St. Lawrence River, en route to Sept-Îles, Quebec. The vessel's progress was hindered by heavy ice concentration and, in the vicinity of Champlain, the diesel engine generators overheated. The ship's electrical power supply was affected and, therefore, the main propulsion system could not maintain its output and was eventually shut down. Shortly thereafter, the Great Century experienced a blackout. An officer was dispatched to the forecastle to let go the anchors, but they were frozen in the hawse pipes. The vessel drifted in the ice flow and grounded outside the channel some 2 nautical miles down river off Pointe à la Citrouille. During the up-coming tide, the vessel was refloated with tug assistance. There was no injury or pollution as a result of this occurrence.

Recorded marine occurrences naming this vessel.

Bulker · summer draught 7.1 m · 69.1 t per cm immersion

Estimate only — modelled from deadweight (deadweight regression) using a first-principles hydrostatic model, not measured hydrostatic tables. The design draught it is anchored to is unreliable across the fleet.

density DWT/GT=1.92 is consistent with declared bulker

Declared type is consistent with the class implied by the vessel’s size signals. Inferred via our shared size-based classifier.