{"id":87351,"date":"2017-12-15T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b65ef9531da409d1da8fa87bd813682e"},"modified":"2017-12-15T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:23:36","slug":"news-story-fishing-boat-skipper-gets-suspended-sentence-for-running-his-vessel-aground-off-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=87351","title":{"rendered":"News story: Fishing boat skipper gets suspended sentence for running his vessel aground off Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Kinnaird, had earlier pleaded guilty to the charges at Plymouth magistrates court on 6 December, which related to an incident on October.
\nIt was shortly after 8.45pm on 7 October 2017, that Mr Kinnaird\u2019s vessel, a 21metre trawler FV Algrie left its moorings at Sutton Harbour. It then continued out of the harbour entrance but did not alter course into the shipping channel.<\/p>\n

Instead, the FV Algrie kept a steady course at seven knots before running aground at Mountbatten Breakwater. None of the five crew on board was injured and there was no reported pollution as a result.
\nMinor damage was caused to the vessel and it was recovered back to its moorings on the next high tide.
\nWhen interviewed by MCA Enforcement Officers, Mr Kinnaird said he had navigated into and out of the harbour hundreds of times, but on this occasion, became confused when he saw lights from anglers who were fishing from the breakwater. He was asked why he didn\u2019t reduce his speed or reverse, use his navigation aids or even his spot light but he could give no answer.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kinnaird was sentenced to a total of four months imprisonment which has been suspended for two years. He was also ordered to pay costs of \u00a35000 and \u00a3115 victim surcharge.
\nIn passing sentence, District Judge Taylor said that alcohol did affect Mr Kinnaird\u2019s actions that night and he didn\u2019t accept his explanation about being confused by the lights on the breakwater.
\nIan Blair, technical manager from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency\u2019s marine office at Plymouth said, \u2018Preparing a comprehensive passage plan and maintaining a safe and proper navigational watch at all times, by use of all available means, is of paramount importance in order to prevent incidents such as this from occurring.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fisherman with over 40 years experience has been sentenced to four months in prison, suspended for two years after pleading guilty to offences under the Merchant Shipping Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}