Completed Preliminary Examinations 2008
The following preliminary examinations have been completed. Having considered all the evidence in each case, the Chief Inspector has decided that there are no other safety issues to be learnt from the accident which require further investigation and publication of a report.
To view the full Summaries click on the vessel names.
Merchant Vessels
| Vessel Name | Vessel Type | Accident Type | Accident Date |
| Overseas Camar | Chemical/Products Tanker | Machinery failure resulting in serious injury to crewman | 21/06/08 |
| Varmland | Container ship | Fatal accident | 21/06/08 |
| West Express | Ro-ro/lo-lo | Vessel made contact with the quay off Heysham | 08/07/08 |
| Englishman | Tug | Fatality on board a Tug in the English Channel. | 22/05/2008 |
| Montis | General cargo vessel | General cargo vessel made contact with Skelton railway bridge on the River Ouse. | 24/06/2008 |
| Queen Victoria | Passenger/ Cruise ship | Cruise ship made contact with the quay in Valletta, Malta. | 14/05/2008 |
| Fast Filip | General cargo vessel | General cargo vessel made contact with moored tanker at Immingham Oil Terminal. | 07/06/2008 |
| Wind Solution | Ro-ro (to be used as hotel ship) | Passenger/Cargo ferry made contact with the berth while departing Grimsby | 05/06/2008 |
| Mistress Quickly | Class V passenger craft | Mechanical breakdown and subsequent fire | 05/06/2008 |
| Maike D | Container vessel | Escape of harmful substance and fire while alongside in Hamburg | 08/06/2008 |
| Pride of Canterbury | Ro-pax ferry | Ro-ro vehicle passenger ferry suffered major failure of vertical escape system on deployment during a planned inspection in Dover | 01/02/2008 |
| King of Scandinavia | Ro-ro passenger ship | Contact between Ro-ro Passenger ferry and Semi submersible Platform on the River Tyne | 22/02/2008 |
| Mariella | Product Tanker | Norwegian registered vessel dragged her anchor in poor weather in Weymouth Bay | 10/01/2008 |
| Millennium City | Class V Passenger vessel | Class V Passenger vessel made contact with arch buttress | 25/01/2008 |
| Queen Elizabeth 2/ Pride of Kent |
Passenger vessel/Passenger ferry | Close quarters situation in the Dover Strait | 15/12/07 |
| Seven Sisters | Ro-ro passenger ferry | Contact of the French Ro-ro Passenger Ferry with the west pier, while departing from Newhaven. | 03/02/08 |
| Viking Discovery | Platform Supply and Safety Standby vessel | Inadvertent release of Fast Rescue Craft onboard UK flagged Offshore standby vessel, resulting in three crewman being injured. | 14/12/07 |
| Monika | Cargo vessel | Fatality of a crewman onboard, which occurred while the vessel was on passage from Russia to Scotland. | 28/10/07 |
| Luvly Jubbly/ Long Sands |
Tug/Dumb barge | Grounding of the barge Longsands while under tow by the tug Luvly Jubbly, in Weymouth Bay | 23/10/07 |
| Wizard | Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) | Grounding of jetboat on rocks off St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. There were injuries to the skipper and two passengers and material damage. | 19/11/07 |
Fishing vessels
| Vessel Name | Vessel Type | Accident Type | Accident Date |
| Levan Mor of Looe | Trawler | Capsize and sinking approximately 15 miles south of Lands End | 23/07/2008 |
| Guyona | Scallop dredger and stern trawler | Foundering of a fishing vessel off the Channel Islands | 24/06/2008 |
| Misty Dawn | Shrimp Trawler | Foundering of fishing vessel off Silloth. | 23/06/2008 |
| Bountiful | Prawn Trawler | Grounding off Lady Isle, near Troon. Fishing vessel sustained some material damage | 23/05/2008 |
| Girl Patricia | Gill netter | Flooding and foundering of fishing vessel off Cornish coast - four crew safely evacuated | 29/05/2008 |
| Courageous III | Pair Seine Trawler | Grounding of fishing vessel in Peterhead Bay | 05/05/2008 |
| Horizon | Crabber | Grounding of fishing vessel on rocks in Lough Swilly | 04/03/2008 |
| Sanlormarho II | Twin-rig trawler | Fatal accident to a crew member on board a fishing vessel in UK coastal waters | 04/03/2008 |
| Fisher Boys | Twin-rig trawler | Flooding and foundering, 40 miles NE of Fraserburgh | 11/01/08 |
| Spinningdale | Long liner | Fishing vessel grounded off St Kilda | 01/02/08 |
Leisure Craft
| Vessel Name | Vessel Type | Accident Type | Accident Date |
| Lady of Rudding | Lady of Rudding/ Datchet/ Barge BC6470 | Collision between a yacht and a towed barge | 04/04/08 |
| Time Flies | Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) | Three men overboard from RIB on the Thames, in London. | 28/07/07 |
