Maltese Cross
Vessel anchored in an exposed location. Other vessel dragged anchor and struck own. Own vessel did not have engines ready for manoeuvre as prevailing conditions, common sense and in this case, the Management Company would require. Vessel was equipped with full ECDIS but anchor watch out-of-position alarm was not set up. Own Officer-of-the-watch later stated that he’d thought the other vessel was under way having confused the Maltese flag with the International Code of Signals ‘H’ flag (‘I have a pilot on board’).
