General Grot-Rowecki

General Grot-Rowecki
History
Name	General Grot-Rowecki
Namesake	Stefan Rowecki
Operator	Polish Steamship Company
Builder	Georgi Dimitrov Shipyard, Varna, Bulgaria
Launched	27 June 1985
Identification	IMO number: 8417754 MMSI number: 207135000
Fate	Scrapped 2013
General characteristics
Type	Handymax bulk carrier
Tonnage	23,409 GT 38,498 DWT
Length	199 m (652 ft 11 in)
Beam	28 m (91 ft 10 in)
Draught	11 m (36 ft 1 in)
Propulsion	Sulzer engine, 7,943 kW (10,652 hp)
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Crew	21

General Grot-Rowecki (IMO 8417754) was a 23,000-tonne, 198 metres (649 ft 7 in), freighter. Built in 1985, she was named after Stefan Grot-Rowecki, a Polish general in the Second World War. In 2010 she was renamed Baltic Star and was scrapped in 2013.

Ship history

On 13 November 2005 the General Grot-Rowecki collided with the 20,700-tonne Swedish RO-RO passenger ferry MS Finnsailor while south-east of Gedser, Denmark, in the Baltic Sea. Both ships sustained damage and had to return to port for repairs.[1]

On 31 January 2006 she collided with the French chemical tanker Ece in the English Channel. At the time of the collision, the General Grot-Rowecki was owned by the Polish Steamship Company and registered in Malta, and was en route to the port of Police, Poland, while the 8,131-tonne, 126 m (413 ft 5 in) Ece was bound for Ghent, Belgium. They collided approximately 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Guernsey. The General Grot-Rowecki was not seriously damaged, and its 21 crew members were unhurt. However, the collision led to the sinking of the Ece and the release of 10,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid into the Channel. The Ece's crew, numbering 22 members, was rescued by lifeboat and helicopter in a joint English and French operation.

In 2010 General Grot-Rowecki was renamed Baltic Star and registered in Bulgaria. She was scrapped on 23 July 2013.[2][3]

References

1. "Swedish Maritime Safety Inspectorate Report on the collision between General Grot-Rowecki and Finnsailor" (PDF). transportstyrelsen.se. 20 March 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 August 2010. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
2. "BALTIC STAR - Vessel's Details and Current Position". marinetraffic.com. 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
3. "8417754". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 2 December 2019.

External links

• "Collision ship's safety failures". BBC News.
• "Acid spill fears in English Channel after ship collision". The Times.^[dead link‍]
• "Ece". Centre for Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution.