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Offline thackney

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Explosion Damages Ship Carrying Wheat to Yemen
« on: May 14, 2018, 05:52:48 pm »
Explosion Damages Ship Carrying Wheat to Yemen
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Explosion Damages Ship Carrying Wheat to Yemen
May 13, 2018

An explosion has damaged a Turkish vessel carrying wheat to Yemen’s Houthi-controlled port of Saleef, with varying accounts attributing the incident on Thursday to an unexplained blast aboard the ship or a possible missile strike.

A naval ship of a Saudi-led military coalition received a call from the captain of the vessel, the Ince Inebolu, who reported an opening had appeared in the middle of the ship on the left side, a spokesman for the alliance said.

“Coalition forces conducted a survey of the incident and visited the ship and found an explosion from the inside to the outside,” the spokesman said in a statement....

...A separate source connected with the shipment said the vessel was carrying 50,000 tonnes of Russian milling wheat, adding that it was unclear if it was hit by a missile or due to an internal blast, while anchored about 70 miles (112) off Saleef, which is just north of the port of Hodeidah on the Red Sea....

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Re: Explosion Damages Ship Carrying Wheat to Yemen
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2018, 06:22:02 pm »
Bet you a donut that this was ordnance inside the wheat that went off and caused the explosion. This ship is lucky that it did not lead to secondary explosions. The wheat may have acted as an insulator barrier. The ship is obviously smuggling arms to Yemen. Something in the hold probably exploded from overheating.
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Re: Explosion Damages Ship Carrying Wheat to Yemen
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2018, 07:45:22 pm »
Quote from: 240B on May 14, 2018, 06:22:02 pm
Bet you a donut that this was ordnance inside the wheat that went off and caused the explosion. This ship is lucky that it did not lead to secondary explosions. The wheat may have acted as an insulator barrier. The ship is obviously smuggling arms to Yemen. Something in the hold probably exploded from overheating.

Wheat can cause a dust explosion.  This occurs on occasion in grain elevators.

However, the particulars of this shipment do make one wonder.
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Re: Explosion Damages Ship Carrying Wheat to Yemen
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2018, 07:54:36 pm »
Now how are they going to make any bread?
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