The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report into the October 4, 2023, grounding of the former OSV Bonnie G, half a mile south of the Cyril E. King airport in
The Bonnie G stranded on rocks following the grounding. [U.S. Coast Guard photograph]
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report into the October 4, 2023, grounding of the former OSV Bonnie G, half a mile south of the Cyril E. King airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The agency finds that an anchor chain failure was the cause of the Bonnie G grounding, which occurred during Tropical Storm Phillippe and started a 26-day salvage saga in the height of the hurricane season.
The 172-foot-long, Vanuatu-flagged vessel was originally delivered as an offshore supply vessel by Halter Marine in Lockport, Louisiana, in 1981 and had several previous names, including Lone Wolf, Century, and Bella. It was acquired by Third Lady, LLC in 2020. It then went through a conversion into a cargo vessel, during which the stern ramp was widened and the twin deck stacks were moved to facilitate roll-on/roll-off cargo and maximize deck space. It regularly transported
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