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Repair won't delay dredging work

The electrical fire on board the "Grete Fighter" brought in to carry out work at Wemyss Bay pier was not expected to delay major repairs. The blaze broke out in the engine room of the dredger on Oct 26 and damaged the vessel’s main engine and one diesel generator when the ship was near Wemyss Bay. It lost propulsion power as a result of the incident, and two tugs had to be dispatched to tow the vessel to Greenock’s Great Harbour, where local firefighters used thermal imaging cameras wto ensure there was no risk of the blaze re-igniting, and then to the Inchgreen repair facility in Port Glasgow. Repairs were expected to take around four weeks. Dredging work at the pier had been due to start in December, but the ship had been brought in in the hope of making an earlier start to that aspect of the work. Report with photo: http://www.buteman.co.uk/news/local-headlines/fire-on-ship-won-t-delay-wemyss-bay-work-1-3932740

Fire on dredger

Rescue services were alerted after fire broke out in the engine room of the "Grete Fighter" on the Clyde on Oct 26. 2015, at 6.20 p.m. The dredger was off Wemyss Bay at that time. The ship's own carbon dioxide firefighting system extinguished the fire. The tug "Ayton Cross" was sent to tow the "Grete Fighter" to Inchgreen, where fire crews and a Coastguard unit attended in the Great Port of Greenock as a precaution once the ship was berthed.