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IMO 9355329 · MMSI 236111000
MOL Comfort was a 2008-built Bahamas-flagged post-Panamax container ship (86,692 GT) that broke completely in two off Yemen on 17 June 2013 during moderate seas. The 26 crew abandoned successfully and were rescued within hours. The two halves drifted separately for weeks; the forward section was towed toward Oman before sinking on 27 June, and the aft section — still carrying containers — burned and sank on 6 July. Total constructive loss of vessel and 4,382 laden containers made it one of the largest single container losses ever. ClassNK's post-loss investigation identified hull-girder failure at the transverse bulkhead between cargo holds 5 and 6.
MOL Comfort ended the 'blue-water container ships are structurally over-safe' consensus for the industry's largest hulls. Deck officers on 8,000+ TEU vessels increasingly monitor bending-moment loading in real time on their loadicators after Comfort; the accident report is a required-reading precedent in every classification-society structural-response course.
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Status: Lost 2013 · Wikipedia
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Hull failure in Indian Ocean 2013 — major post-Panamax structural casualty.
MOL Comfort was a 2008-built Bahamian-flagged chartered by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines in 2008 as APL Russia and sailed under that name until 2012, when the ship was renamed to MOL Comfort. On 17 June 2013, she broke in two about 200 nautical miles (370 km; 230 mi) off the coast of Yemen . The aft section sank on 27 June and the bow section, after being destroyed by fire, on 11 July.
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