Ventura

The "Ventura" was detained in Gdynia following its arrival on Feb 18, 2016, after an inspection found eight deficiencies: 1) Radio communications - Facilities for reception of marine safety inform Inoperative 2) Fire safety - Fixed fire exthinuishing installation Inoperative 3) Fire safety - Jacketed high pressure and oil leakage alarm -Missing 4) Fire safety - Fire detection and alarm system Inoperative 5) Pollution Prevention - Sewage treatment plant' Not as required 6) Propulsion and auxiliary mach. - Auxiliary machinery Insufficient power 7) Propulsion and auxiliary machiner - UMS . Ship Inoperative 8) Safety of navigation - Navigation bridge visibility Not as required The vessel was released again on Feb 28 and left the port enroute to Fredrikstad with an ETA as of March 3. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CHvCY2CCd/

The "Ventura" remained has at Vigo due to an engine fault, which occurred on its voyage from Aveiro to Szczecin, since Jan 20, 2019. The vessel attempted to sail again on Jan 27, but again encountered engine problems and required assistance of the salvage tug "Maria Pita" and berthed at 3.55 p.m.

The "Ventura" en route from Waterford, suffered a broken exhaust manifold gasket in position 49 08 28.8 N, 06 21 54 W, on Oct 16, 2018, at 06.40 a.m. Multiple attempts to contact the vessel which was NUC by the Falmouth Coastguard failed. The "Ventura" finally made contact with CGOC Falmouth at 08.55 a.m. and reported the problem. The vessel was back underway at 09.30 a.m.and proceeding to Penzance to pick up spare parts and an engineer.

The “Lady Gul” being enroute from Istanbul to Constanta, was in collision with the Comores-flagged cargo m/v “St. Catrien” (IMO:7928770), on its way from Constanta to Samsun, nine miles south of Cape Kaliakra Cape in Northeastern Bulgaria in the night of Mar 8, 2013. Both ships were damaged and proceeded to Varna anchorage where they were to undergo more inspections. No injuries, no spills reported. The Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications launched an investigation into the cause of the collision and was in contact with the Maritime Rescue Center in this regard.