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On 1 Octo­ber 2009 Sea Char­ente loaded 1900 tonnes of ani­mal feed wheat pel­lets in Ghent, Bel­gium. Dur­ing load­ing the 300 watt hold lights, which were an unap­proved mod­i­fi­ca­tion car­ried out under the vessel’s pre­vi­ous own­er­ship, were switched on.

While on pas­sage to Glas­gow, smoke was seen to escape from the cargo hold’s star­board after ven­ti­la­tion ter­mi­nal. Soon after­wards the hot hold lights were found to be still switched on.

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