The 366 metre vessel had left Felixstowe on the 27th June heading for Southampton with a draft of 14.7 metres, as she went into the English channel she suffered engine failure and began to drift. She was towed to the anchorage off the Isle of Wight where repairs could be made.
Due to missing her berthing slot at Southampton she headed back to Felixstowe to offload the cargo for Southampton.
Early this morning the Cosco Pride arrived at the Sunk Pilot Station at around 04:00 to board a pilot to head inbound for Felixstowe Berth 8.
Cargo operations had finished and was ready to go but the pilot who was tasked to take the Cosco Pride out was on the Mogens Maersk which had just came in and was making fast alongside Felixstowe Berth 9. Once all fast the pilot came down the gangway of the Mogens Maersk and up onto the Cosco Pride.
Once onboard the pilot radios through to Harwich VTS to say they were ready to depart with a draft of 14.1 metres for Piraeus and was making the 2 tugs fast.
Svitzer Deben was made fast centre lead aft and Svitzer Sky was made fast centre lead forward. the tugs in position the crew began to single up to just springs. The springs were released and the pilot radios the Deben to go straight on at 50% to start lifting the stern off the berth. The pilot then radios the Sky to lift off 50% shortly after the Deben increases up to full. The Cosco Pride edges out from the berth with the stern out in the tide. After a little while the pilot gets the Sky to go all easy to get the stern out more.
Edging further into the channel the pilot uses the bow thrusters and the sky increses to 50% again then up to 75% to swing the bow in to the channel to head outbound.
Once in the channel the pilot began to come ahead on the main engine and got both tugs to go right of centre fore and aft. Sky comes in to let go and then peels off on the Felixstowe side. The Deben is kept fast as they were required for a powered indirect around the 90deg Beach End into the North Sea.
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