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Barge

Samson

IMO 5308988Ireland

Photo: Dennissheehan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About Samson

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Samson was a crane barge which ran aground off the coast of Ireland in 1987.
Samson had left Liverpool on 9 December 1987, bound for Valletta, Malta. Though the barge was initially being towed by a tugboat, the towline parted in near gale force conditions while off the Welsh coast early on 11 December. The two men aboard the barge were rescued by an RAF Sea King flying from RAF Brawdy, after attempts to reconnect the tow line failed.
The barge eventually ran aground at Rams Head, Ardmore, County Waterford, at approximately 7.50 am on 12 December. Dangerous pollutants were removed soon after the barge went aground, but despite questions being raised in the Dáil Éireann, the wrecked barge was not salvaged and remains in situ. The ships' propeller was removed and put on display in the village of Ardmore.
In April 2016 the entire jib collapsed into the sea.

Quoted from Samson (crane barge) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

In context

How Samson compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

Ireland is the country of registry for 121 vessels in this directory. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (75 ships), and the median vessel measures 1,264 GT. Browse every ship flagged Ireland.

At 55.8 m overall, Samson is 50.9 m shorter than the 106.7 m median for barges on record, with a beam of 17.5 m.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5308988 this registry holds 7 other vessels, whose median build year is 1956 and which range from 1909 to 1961. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series; no build year is recorded for this vessel itself.

Its IMO number, 5308988, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 3×6 + 0×5 + 8×4 + 9×3 + 8×2 = 128 — and the last digit of that total, 8, must equal the seventh digit, 8. It does, so this number is well formed.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
Sampo	5308938	1961
IMO 5308823	5308823	—
Samka	5308794	1956
IMO 5309360	5309360	—

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.

Written summaryQuoted from Samson (crane barge) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

PhotographBy Dennissheehan, reused under CC BY-SA 3.0.

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