EMS Defender of Lowestoft

EMS Defender at Lowestoft.

 

Name: EMS Defender

Vessel type: Twin Voith tug

Home port: Lowestoft

Flag: United Kingdom

IMO: 6708604

MMSI: 235091291

Call sign: GWPU

Accommodation: 10

Length overall: 25.6 m

Beam: 7.68 m

Draught: 3.8 m

Gross tonnage: 143.2 tons

Engines: 2 x Ruston diesels

Bollard pull: 15 ton

Builder: Lewis & Sons, Aberdeen

Year built: 1967

Owner: Eastern Marine Services, Lowestoft

 

Previous names:

St. Margaret, until 6th. February 2013

Inchcolm, until 1998

 

DISABLED OF SPURN POINT.

At 2.30 p.m. on 7th.December 2018 in position 53 52.476 N, 001 01.481 E, 34 miles from Spurn Poin, the buoy tender Vikingfjord suffered a power reduction due to a faulty connection between the engine and turbot and had a restricted manoeuvrability. The ship's agent, Carlbom Shipping, asked the tug EMS Boxer to assist, but it was unable to complete the task and had to return to Great Yarmouth. Instead, at 9.15 a.m. on 9th. December the tug EMS Defender was tasked to assist from Great Yarmouth with an ETA of midnight, 10th December in order to tow the tender to Grimsby. The ship entered Grimsby Royal Dock on 11th. December.

Done