Venezuelan Coast Guard Vessel Sinks After Colliding with Portuguese Passenger Ship

[JJ_BPK]

Looks like someone is testing their Navel Force Projection with less than positive results?

In one article the Venezuelan Gov statement said the cruise ship was smuggling gorilla/guerrilla forces and thus justified the attempted boarding.

Cruise ship sunk Venezuelan Navy ship after being fired at and rammed. Don’t mess with RESOLUTE.

Posted in Accidents by Mikhail Voytenko on Apr 01, 2020 at 10:41.
Cruise ship sunk Venezuelan Navy ship after being fired at and rammed. Don’t mess with RESOLUTE.

Apr 2 UPDATE: Cruise ship with 35 maintenance crew on board (no passangers) was positioned outside Venezuelan territorial waters, when she was approached by NAIGUATA and ordered to sail to Puerto Moreno on Isla De Margarita. Warning shots were fired, Master of RESOLUTE (RESOLUTE indeed!) refused to obey and maintained her course.

From RESOLUTE owner statement: … the navy vessel approached the starboard side at speed with an angle of 135° and purposely collided with the RCGS RESOLUTE. The navy vessel continued to ram the starboard bow in an apparent attempt to turn the ship’s head towards Venezuelan territorial waters. While the RCGS RESOLUTE sustained minor damages, not affecting vessel’s seaworthiness, it occurs that the navy vessel suffered severe damages while making contact with the ice-strengthened bulbous bow of the ice-class expedition cruise vessel RCGS RESOLUTE and started to take water…

NAIGUATA sank, but RESOLUTE, as it came out, didn’t flee, she “…remained for over one hour in vicinity of the scene and reached out to MRCC Curacao, and sailed away only after receiving the order to resume passage full ahead by the MRCC and that further assistance is not required”.

So, there’s nothing much else left to talk about, except to laugh and to applaud RESOLUTE Master. Not many – if any – similar cases in naval history, when defenceless passenger ship sunk Navy battleship, and went away with it.

Apr 1 UPDATE: I’ve been correct in my assumption, that the decision to flee was justified, or so it seems, judging from updates published by local sources. According to Curacao media and their information, ANBV NAIGUATA did attempt to seize cruise ship and take her to Margarita Island, east of Tortuga, under a dubious pretext of “violation of Venezuela territorial waters”. Ships navigating in these waters enjoy the right of free passage, so it looks like an attempt to hijack cruise ship. That explains this strange leg in ship’s track and unexplainable Tortuga approach.

[Pete]

And the Naiguata was no little ship.

It was a right good size critter.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/a...th-cruise-ship

70 meter patrol ship vs 122 meter ice breaker = 122 meter ice breaker wins.

[PRB]

Did the dumb ass Captain o down with his ship.... probably wishes he had.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by PRB

Did the dumb ass Captain o down with his ship.... probably wishes he had.

I read several different stories and none mentioned the crew, but the civilian ship stayed on until released.

"Resolute did not suffer any harm affecting her seaworthiness, and after contacting maritime rescue authorities in Curacao, she waited on scene for one hour, her operator said. After MRCC Curacao released her from the scene, she got under way for Willemstad. "

[Remington Raidr]

Originally Posted by JJ_BPK

Looks like someone is testing their Navel Force Projection with less than positive results?

In one article the Venezuelan Gov statement said the cruise ship was smuggling gorilla forces and thus jusified the attempted boarding.

"Gorilla"?!?! You must have been a bravo, or wanted to be . . .

[Swoop]

Originally Posted by Remington Raidr

"Gorilla"?!?! You must have been a bravo, or wanted to be . . .

Will there be orangutans and chimpanzees as well??

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by GN1

"Gorilla"?!?! You must have been a bravo, or wanted to be.

Originally Posted by GN2

Will there be orangutans and chimpanzees as well??

Are you two the New WO1 Grammar Nazis??