{"id":1458775,"date":"2024-02-22T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1458775"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T23:45:00","slug":"another-uk-ship-on-fire-near-yemen-as-sea-becomes-littered-with-disabled-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/another-uk-ship-on-fire-near-yemen-as-sea-becomes-littered-with-disabled-tankers\/1458775\/","title":{"rendered":"Another UK Ship On Fire Near Yemen As Sea Becomes Littered With Disabled Tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another UK Ship On Fire Near Yemen As Sea Becomes Littered With Disabled Tankers<\/span><\/p>\n

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The last several days have witnessed well over half a dozen attacks or attempted attacks by Houthis on foreign vessels and tankers in the Red Sea. For example the US military confirmed<\/a> Tuesday that two US-owned tankers were struck the day prior. Such attacks are now coming several times a day.<\/p>\n

On Thursday the Pentagon said its coalition ships in the Red Sea intercepted six more drones<\/strong> over waters off Yemen. This came after another UK-owned ship was struck, and is reportedly burning and immobile<\/strong> some 70 nautical miles southeast of Aden.<\/p>\n

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A new United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency alert said the\u00a0British-owned, Palau-flagged ship was hit by two missiles<\/strong> while en route from Thailand to Egypt.<\/p>\n

Increasingly, waters off Yemen are being littered with disabled and sinking tankers, as the saga of the\u00a0Belize-flagged, British-registered\u00a0Rubymar has shown. Earlier in the week it was hit by Houthi fire and the crew abandoned ship<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are reports that the vessel’s operators are currently trying to tow the ship to Djibouti, and that it remains partially below water, the engine room having suffered severe damage.<\/p>\n

BBC wrote<\/a> of one image widely circulating that it is “said to be from Tuesday and shows a vessel still above water. It is down by the stern, but has not sunk<\/strong>. Although the ship’s name is not visible, all of its characteristics match those of the Rubymar.”<\/p>\n

The partially sunk Rubymar. Image source: BBC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Based on the ratcheting rate of these attacks, expect more such images of other ships to emerge in the coming weeks and months, as the war in Gaza rages on.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Houthis have issued a new alert, formalizing a ban on all foreign vessels’ passage (presumably excluding Russian, Chinese, and Iranian ships of course). According to the Thursday notification<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Houthis\u2019 communication, the first to the shipping industry outlining a formalized ban, came in the form of two notices from the Houthis\u2019 newly-dubbed Humanitarian Operations Coordination Center sent to shipping insurers and firm<\/strong>s.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ships that are wholly or partially owned by Israeli individuals or entities and Israel-flagged vessels, or are owned by US or British individuals or entities, or sailing under their flags, are banned from the Red Sea<\/strong>, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea, Thursday\u2019s notices said.<\/em><\/p>\n

“The Humanitarian Operations Center was established in Sanaa to coordinate the safe and peaceful passage of ships and vessels that have no connection to Israel,” a Houthi official told Reuters.<\/p>\n

UK-owned\u00a0Rubymar from earlier this week, via BBC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

According to the latest<\/a> from the Houthi military spokesman Thursday: “In response to the US-UK aggression, the armed forces of Yemen carried out 3 operations”…<\/p>\n

The launching of a number of ballistic missiles and drones at various targets in Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat), south of occupied Palestine.
\n\tThe targeting of a British ship \u201cISLANDER\u201d in the Gulf of Aden, using anti-ship missiles. The ship was directly hit, leading to a fire on board.
\n\tThe targeting of an American destroyer (warship) in the Red Sea using a number of kamikaze drones.<\/p>\n

Tamas Varga of oil broker PVM has written in a new note, “If anything, Houthis attacks on cargo ships are intensifying in the Red Sea and around the Gulf of Aden.”\u00a0<\/strong>The US-led coalition named Operation Prosperity Guardian has not deterred these attack. If anything, they’ve only escalated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 02\/22\/2024 – 13:45<\/span><\/p>\n

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