THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT 1894: FORMAL INVESTIGATION INTO SHIPPING CASUALTY M.V. DERBYSHIRE

This document reports on a formal investigation held between 11 June 1987 and 18 January 1989, to inquire into the circumstances pertaining to the sinking of the DERBYSHIRE in the Pacific Ocean off Okinawa on or about 9 September 1980, with the loss of 44 lives. The court found that the DERBYSHIRE was probably overwhelmed by the forces of nature in Typhoon Orchid.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Report; Report of Court No.8075
• Corporate Authors:

  Department for Transport, England

  Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street
  London,   England  SW1P 4DR

  London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office

  , ZZ N/A   
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Pagination: Various p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash investigation; Marine safety; Reports; Ships by motive power; Shipwrecks; Water transportation crashes
• Identifier Terms: Derbyshire (Ship)
• Geographic Terms: Pacific Ocean
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00659305
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM