Focus on Emergency Service Vessels

Baird Maritime focuses on some of the latest vessel deliveries and other noteworthy developments in the global maritime emergency services sector. The featured vessels are from a broad range of types fulfilling multiple roles, from police patrol craft in Spain and New Zealand to rescue boats in Australia and Croatia.

Firefighting • Search and Rescue • Police • Coast Guard

The lineup of reviewed vessels also includes unique examples such as a Swedish-operated high-speed firefighting craft, an unmanned rescue vehicle for the Spanish Navy, and two general-use workboats that will support relief efforts in Central Africa.

Continue to visit these pages over the coming days to stay updated on the ever-expanding emergency services sector.

Vessel Reviews:

• Ranger – Compact patrol and rescue catamaran for New Zealand Police
• SAR 1 – Croatian medevac provider acquires locally-built fast boat
• Rio Sil – Fisheries patrol boat quartet for Spain’s Guardia Civil police force
• MB31 – Durable rescue RIB to operate in Merimbula, Australia
  
• RIBs to support UN relief efforts in DR Congo
• Balder – Greater Stockholm Fire Service adds response boat to fleet
• Spanish Navy acquires ROV for submarine rescue missions
• Nikolai Semenchenko – Emergency response workhorse for Russian Marine Rescue Service
• Lillian Mac – Western Australia operator welcomes low-emission firefighting tug to fleet
• Pate – Kenya Ports Authority to operate Turkish-built firefighting tug
• Response RIB delivered to Texas Highway Patrol
• New series of 12m RIBs for Norwegian Police
• Strazak-28 – Polish port authority’s new firefighting vessel boasts ice navigation capability
• Orinoco – North Sea rescue boat for Flemish transport company
• Zhongguo Yingji Chongqing Hao – Large salvage and rescue vessel for China’s inland waters
• Fast, durable patrol boat for Australia’s Queensland Police

Features and Opinion:

FEATURE | Efficacy of vessel drencher systems in relation to battery electric vehicle fires

– “The tests clearly illustrated that the overall risk of carrying battery-electric vehicles should be considered equivalent or lower than carrying internal combustion engine vehicles.”

– by Johan Roos, Director of Regulatory Affairs for Interferry

COLUMN | Mass irregular migration poses growing maritime security challenge for Europe [Naval Gazing]

– “So far in 2023, organised crime groups have reaped fortunes by facilitating the passage of about 45,000 IMs by inflatable craft – or usually decrepit wooden vessels – with the prime IM crossing season yet to begin.”

– by Trevor Hollingsbee, former UK Royal Navy officer and Baird Maritime‘s resident maritime security expert and columnist

News and Gear:

• Boat capsizing leaves 11 dead in western Indonesia
• Emergency Service Vessel News Roundup | April 27 – Uganda ambulance boat, firefighting vessels for Singapore and more
• Five killed in northern Nigeria boat mishap
• One dead following fishing boat fire in Njardvik, Iceland
• Philippine ferry suffers second grounding incident in less than a year
• Probe begins on ferry grounding in Puget Sound, Washington
• South African authorities respond to fire on fishing vessel
• Ferry sinks following collision with pleasure boat in Bay of Islands, New Zealand
• One dead following vessel transfer mishap off IJmuiden, Netherlands

Recent Important Features:

COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]

– “The industry is locked in a cycle of the same type of incident occurring over and over, and nobody is taking action to prevent recurrence until there is a fatality or a serious material loss.”

– by Hieronymus Bosch, Baird Maritime‘s anonymous insider in the world of offshore oil and gas operations

Remember to come back every day to see the latest news, opinion and vessel reviews!

Call for content!

Any news or views about the global emergency services industries? Send it through to [email protected] ASAP (between now and April 28), so we can add it to this current edition of Emergency Services Week!

We are after:

• Vessels – Orders, new deliveries, under construction
• Gear – Latest innovations and technology in the emergency services sectors
• Interviews – Owners, operators, equipment manufacturers, etc.
• Reminiscences – Do you have any exciting, amusing or downright dangerous anecdotes from your time in the emergency services world? (example here)
• Other – Any other relevant news

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