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The ship that rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday causing it to collapse was involved in an accident overseas several years ago.
“The port authority could give no details about the cause of the accident, but said the ship had remained at the dock for repairs for some time after the incident,” the Reuters article noted.The vessel responsible for the Baltimore bridge collapse was implicated in other accidents. In 2016, it collided with the dock at the container terminal in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium.
Breitbart News’s Oliver JJ Lane said there were “serious problems” onboard the ship in the minutes before the crash. The ship’s power apparently went out prior to the incident. So evidently the ship was, as nautical parlance has it, ‘not under command’, meaning “at the mercy of winds and seas” — and in this case, inertia. What we do not know is whether this state of having “lost propulsion” means the engine ceased to function, or if the coupling taking the energy from the engine to the propeller was damaged. In either case the ship was disabled at a critical moment and in a critical place and collided with enormous force.
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