Bow = Front

Shinya Ocean at anchor off Fujairah

A Shipping Corporation of India LNG carrier collided with a very large crude carrier at a Fujairah anchorage in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday evening, resulting a major damage to the oil tanker. - Mike Schuler for gCaptain

Here is plot of what happened.


LNG Carrier Aseem Collides with VLCC Shinyo Ocean off Fujairah
Failure to communicate? Refusal to communicate? Drinking too much Kool-Aid? Whatever. Gadflys gladly fly:


Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off

. . . comedy sketch from the early 1990s, the parts of the politician and interviewer being played by Australian television comedy duo John Clarke and Brian Dawe as they discuss an oil spill that occurred in 1991 when the Greek tanker Kirki lost its bow off the coast of Western Australia. - Snopes

Previous broken ship posts here and here. LNG carrier here. Via Knuckledraggin My Life Away