MV Höegh Osaka is a roll-on/roll-off car carrier ship that was built in 2000 as Maersk Wind for A P Møller, Singapore.

[2] The ship was built in 2000 at yard number 1161 by Tsuneishi Holdings Corporation, Tadotsu District, Kagawa, Japan.

The keel was laid on 3 December 1999 and the ship was launched as Maersk Wind on 1 May 2000 initially under AP Møller, Singapore management.

At 21:09, Höegh Osaka made a port turn at the West Bramble Buoy and developed a severe list.

The pilot gave the order to stop engines at 21:10, and expressed doubts in respect of the metacentric height (GM) of the vessel.

The ship grounded on the Bramble Bank in the Solent off the Isle of Wight at 21:15,[6] and settled with a list that would eventually reach 52°.

A Coastguard AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter from RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) was called out and the tug Apex was also sent to assist.

One crew member broke an arm and a leg when he fell and slid for about 18 metres (59 ft) in a corridor as the ship listed.

A 200 metres (220 yd) maritime exclusion zone was set up around the ship,[13] and airspace below 200 feet (61 m) closed to aircraft within 1 mile (1.6 km).

[7] An attempt to refloat the ship was scheduled for 7 January,[14] but cancelled because more water than expected was discovered inside the vessel.

[18] The ship returned to service on 20 February 2015, sailing from Falmouth via Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea headed for Bar, Montenegro.

The chief officer was in the habit of calculating how much water was transferred between tanks by timing the pumps and using their capacity of 7 tonnes per minute.

Some of the straps used to secure the cargo to the deck were found not to meet regulations in force at the time, only being half as strong as they should have been.