Serval

The 'Serval', en route from Rotterdam, Netherlands to Waterford, Ireland, with six crew members on board, suffered a electrical defect causing steering power loss in position 50 16 30 N, 002 21 46 W, about 14.5 nautical miles south of Portland, UK, on Feb 28, 2022, at 11.10 p.m. The tug 'GT Victory' was tasked to assist and arrived on scene on March 1 at 3.30 a.m. The owner was having a shore-based electrician review of the problem with the switchboard. The tug was towed to Weymouth at 6.30 p.m.

The "Serval", enroute from Gdanks to Papenburg, suffered an engine damage on Feb 21, 2018, short after having left the Kiel-Canal locks in Kiel-Holtenau on Feb 21, 2018, at 10 a.m. The ship was jointly with the SFK-tug "Kitzeberg" underway with two 500-ton-sections of the cruise ship of the newbuilding "AIDANova" which were transported on a barge. Off the North Port in Kiel the convoy drifted perpendicular to the fairway among passing merchant ships and blocked the canal. The tug "Holtenau" which was just involved in pulling the damaged container m/v "Akacia" to the North Port was deployed to assist and went alongside the "Serval". . Jointyl with the "Kitzeberg“ the convoy could be moved to the North Port where the engine of the "Serval" was investigated. Meanwhile the ships were underay again. On Feb 22 the local tugs "Gruno III", "Gruno III" and "Gruno IV" took over the barge "Crist 1" with the bow sections of the cruise ship "AIDA Nova" in Emden from the St. Vinvcent-Grenadines flagged tug "Serval", 275 gt (IMO-No.: 7636365), for the final leg to Papenburg. The "Serval" berthed at Neptun Dock in Emden on Feb 23 at1.40 p.m. Reports with photos: http://www.tugspotters.com/app/content/2018/02/gruno-iii-en-gruno-iv-nemen-ponton/ http://www.kn-online.de/Lokales/Nord-Ostsee-Kanal/Havarie-im-Kanal-Schleppzug-mit-Schiffsteilen-trieb-quer http://www.forum-schiff.de/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1377#p144966

On Mar 23, 2015, the Russian-flagged purse seiner "Marginella", 944 gt (IMO: 8725498), left the port of Cherbourg, where he was detained since 2007. The rundown ship was to be dismantled at Klaipeda. On Mar 24, the ship was off the coast of Normandy, between Caen (Calvados) and Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) under tow of the "Serval", on which 11 deficiencies were identified during an inspection conducted in January 2015 in the port of Gdynia. Environmentalists of Robin Hood regarded it as a high-risk convoy posing a potential environmental disaster with the nets, dozens of buoys, coils of rope, and other rot and floating accessories as well as asbestos, oils and toxic paints on board. In 2007 the "Marginella" suffered two engine room fires in the port of Cherbourg and remained docked for almost eight years since. French report with photos: http://www.normandie-actu.fr/le-marginella-navire-poubelle-au-large-des-cotes-de-normandie_118659/