MV Kowloon Bridge

[Cthippo]

I posted this to the Arms Control Wonk channel and came up with a couple interesting tidbits...

Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 7 Feb 1989

That is the official Dail (legislative) answer on it.


Kowloon Bridge: Remembering the disaster that struck 30 years ago

Newspaper account of the sinking.

So the really interesting bit is that two years earlier the Ro/Ro ship Mont Louis sank in the English Channel and was carrying 450 tons os Hex bound for Riga in Latvia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. I don't know who was shipping hex to the USSR in 1984 or why, but that might be the origin of the story.

Mont Louis - Cedre

wwz.cedre.fr

 

[Jared0425]

I don't see any evidence that this vessel could carry her or had ever in her past voyages. It is unique however to have the ability to carry both liquid and bulk cargo at the same time. The cordon around the wreck was due to both the oil and the nasty fouling paint chemical.

 

[Celt]

I posted this to the Arms Control Wonk channel and came up with a couple interesting tidbits...

Dáil Éireann debate - Tuesday, 7 Feb 1989

That is the official Dail (legislative) answer on it.


Kowloon Bridge: Remembering the disaster that struck 30 years ago

Newspaper account of the sinking.

So the really interesting bit is that two years earlier the Ro/Ro ship Mont Louis sank in the English Channel and was carrying 450 tons os Hex bound for Riga in Latvia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. I don't know who was shipping hex to the USSR in 1984 or why, but that might be the origin of the story.

Mont Louis - Cedre

wwz.cedre.fr

When Padraig Flynn denied that the Kowloon Bridge was carrying TBT he actually gave credence to the rumours she was carrying Hex. Especially when half the fishing boats in Cork and Kerry had by then been antifouled with paint from the wreck.

 

[Celt]

I don't see any evidence that this vessel could carry her or had ever in her past voyages. It is unique however to have the ability to carry both liquid and bulk cargo at the same time. The cordon around the wreck was due to both the oil and the nasty fouling paint chemical.

The oil and paint had been removed when the exclusion zone was put in place. The exclusion zone was put in place when Shaun Kent said he was going to salvage the ore and remove the wreckage for scrap.