Seamen's House

Jan van der Doe
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Locatie: Fergus, ON. Canada

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Het zeemanshuis in Montreal geeft hulp aan Chinese bemanning, die ziek werden na het laden van mais en de gebruikte middelen tegen ongedierte.

Aboard a cold Seaway ship with a sick crew

12/29 - Twenty-two Chinese seamen are resting up in Montreal after a harrowing Christmas journey through the St. Lawrence Seaway. The crew aboard the German-owned Hermann Schoening became violently ill after phosphine gas leaked into the living and working spaces. The gas is used regularly as a fumigant to kill pests in the cargo hold. The freighter is carrying 19,000 tons of midwestern corn bound for Algeria.

The crew was treated at a hospital in Ontario. But the ship then continued on with windows open to air out the gas.

Don Metzger piloted the freighter from Lake Ontario through the St. Lawrence River to Massena. He’s been a Seaway pilot for more than 30 years. He told David Sommerstein he’s never seen anything like this happen before. Metzger says the crew was sick and cold, and unprepared for winter weather. Carolyn Osbourne of the Mariners House of Montreal says the crew spent yesterday recovering after being sickened by phosphine gas. She says they received a second hospital checkup, as well as warm coats, gloves, and Christmas gifts while in port. The ship was scheduled to resume its travels this morning.

An official with Transport Canada says the incident is under investigation. The shipowners could be fined if violations of the Canada Shipping Act are found. But the gas leak is so far being considered an anomaly.

North Country Public Radio

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Hartelijke Groet/Kind regards.

Jan van der Doe.

Varen is noodzakelijk, leven niet.
Huug
Beheerder
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Een willekeurige avond in het zeemanshuis. In dit geval donderdag de 20ste ;) januari 2011.
Bemanningsleden van de Tide North, Harbour Progress, Arklow Willow en Samanyolu vermaken zich prima.
Caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt

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Jan van der Doe
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Hier was het donderdag de 20'.

Mooie foto's Huug van een belangrijke plaats voor de mannen.
Hulde aan de vrijwillegers.
Hartelijke Groet/Kind regards.

Jan van der Doe.

Varen is noodzakelijk, leven niet.
Johan Hanse
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Lid geworden op: do 20 jan 2011, 21:14

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Ziet er gezellig uit Huug! Geweldig dat er nog mensen zijn die aan ons zeelui denken! Keep up the good work! 8-)
Jan van der Doe
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Treat all seamen fairly — regardless of ship registry

Capt. Max Hardberger

March 8, 2011

Admiralty courts have long held a special regard for those who go down to the sea in ships, even making them “wards of the court” in certain cases. Courts do this because cruel and greedy owners have historically victimized seamen.

For U.S. crew, the Jones Act has virtually stopped these unconscionable practices, but for foreign seamen employed under flags of convenience, some of the horrors made infamous in works such as Richard Henry Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast” continue to this day.

U.S. workboat operators that reflag their vessels under any of the dozens of “open registry” nations — even those as dysfunctional as Liberia, or even without a coast, like Bolivia — will find it tempting to take advantage of foreign crews. These nations are only interested in getting paid for letting foreign ships fly their flags. They have no interest in the welfare of non-nationals employed on those reflagged vessels. In fact, it is quite the opposite: open-registry countries compete with each other to convince prospective customers that they will not interfere in ship management.

Not only does such lax oversight allow callous owners to avoid paying wages, they can sell, scrap, or even abandon their ships with unpaid crew onboard. U.S. citizens can get help from any U.S. embassy around the world, but foreign crew come from countries with no such fund. I knew two Peruvian crewmen abandoned in Haiti who died before their families could raise the money to fly them home.

There is a wonderful organization, the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York & New Jersey (SCI), that repatriates crew abandoned anywhere in the world. SCI does it at its own risk and expense. But for an impoverished crewman with six-months of wages stolen by an unscrupulous owner, returning to a home full of starving children is a small joy indeed.

Deepwater drilling and the worldwide expansion of workboat fleets have brought the advantages of flags of convenience to U.S. operators, but with that opportunity comes a moral responsibility to give crews from every nation the same fairness and respect they give U.S. crews.


The Maya Express, abandoned in Haiti. Two Ukrainian crewmen died onboard before the rest of the crew were repatriated by the Seamen’s Church Institute.

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Jan van der Doe.

Varen is noodzakelijk, leven niet.
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