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[Brief]<\/em> On Thursday, a freighter dragged anchor off the coast of Istanbul and struck another anchored ship, startling the crew and causing minor damage. <\/p>\n The yard-and-stay geared bulker Marla Orca<\/em> anchored off Kartal – a district of Istanbul on the Sea of Marmara – on the afternoon of November 4. She had completed a voyage from Egypt to the Sea of Marmara, and declared her destination as "Kroman," the name of a large steel fabrication plant in nearby Kocaeli. <\/p>\n At about 0500 GMT on November 21, in strong southerly winds, the Orca <\/em>dragged anchor and made contact with the coastal freighter DSK1<\/em>, which was also at anchor. A crewmember of the DSK1 caught the incident on camera as the Orca <\/em>banged into the freighter's port side, and he recorded a flurry of VHF calls back and forth as the watchstanders on both ships discussed the unexpected situation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Orca<\/em> soon drifted free, and under power, she repositioned to another location in the anchorage. Both vessels remained in position as of Sunday. <\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Brief] On Thursday, a freighter dragged anchor off the coast of Istanbul and struck another anchored ship, startling the crew and causing minor damage. The yard-and-stay geared bulker Marla Orca anchored off Kartal – a district of Istanbul on the Sea of Marmara – on the afternoon of November 4. She had completed a voyage …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[932,2072,736,23871,1344,15176,23870],"class_list":["post-52188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-bulker","tag-coastal","tag-freighter","tag-geared","tag-hits","tag-istanbul","tag-kartal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/52189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}