{"id":778458,"date":"2026-09-22T03:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778458\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:06:10","slug":"uk-maritime-agency-says-hormuz-tanker-hit-by-debris-from-projectiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/778458\/","title":{"rendered":"UK maritime agency says Hormuz tanker hit by debris from projectiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tanker was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of HormuzTwo crew members sustained minor injuries from the incident<\/p>\n<p class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.jp\/en\/author\/afp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DUBAI: A British maritime security agency reported on Monday that a gas tanker was hit by &#8220;debris from unknown projectiles&#8221; while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has sought to impose its control since the Middle East war began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A master has reported an LPG tanker has been hit by debris from unknown projectiles. The master reports all crew are safe and no environmental impact,&#8221; the UK Maritime Trade Operations said. &#8220;The tanker will continue to its next port of call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, UKMTO said that two crew members were injured after an \u201cunknown projectile\u201d hit their tanker travelling through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Military authorities have informed UKMTO that a tanker conducting an inbound transit was struck by an unknown projectile,&#8221; the agency said. \u201cTwo crew have sustained minor injuries, and the vessel is reported to be continuing to its next port of call under its own power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tanker was struck by an unknown projectile in the Strait of HormuzTwo crew members sustained minor injuries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-778458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}