An oil tanker was struck by an unidentified projectile in the Strait of Hormuz off Oman on Monday. The British-run maritime center UKMTO says the crew is unharmed.
DR reports that the strike was announced by United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, a maritime information center under the British defense ministry. The center posted the advisory on the social media platform X. According to DR, the report came from the tanker’s own captain.
The incident took place on Monday, August 24, and the crew is reported unharmed. UKMTO has not named the vessel, and it has not said who fired the projectile. As of the reports published on Tuesday, no state or group had claimed responsibility.
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Engine room damaged, vessel disabled
UPI, citing the UKMTO statement, places the position about 9 nautical miles northeast of Ash Shishan in Oman. The projectile damaged the tanker’s engine room and disabled the ship, per the same account. UPI adds that UKMTO received the report at around 12:25 a.m. local time and that authorities were investigating.
Any environmental impact was still unknown when the reports were published, according to UPI. WANA describes the location as roughly 17 kilometers off the coast near Al-Shisah in northern Oman. The outlet also cites UKMTO in reporting heavy damage to the propulsion system and no casualties among the crew.
WANA notes that UKMTO issued a warning to vessels in the area to exercise extreme caution. The two distance figures are described differently by the outlets, but both point to the same stretch of water off northern Oman.
A waterway still closed to traffic
DR states that the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes, remains de facto blocked for passage. Iran imposed the blockade a few days after the United States and Israel attacked the country on February 28, 2026. That framing appears in DR’s report and is not repeated by UPI or WANA.
UPI describes the strike as the latest attack in the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran over control of the strait. DR, citing Reuters via the Danish news agency Ritzau, reports that attacks across the Middle East have decreased. The same report states that diplomatic efforts to end the war have stalled.
Denmark has been drawn into the wider standoff at sea before, including when authorities seized a blacklisted Iranian ship. UKMTO’s advisory on X remains the only official public statement identified on Monday’s incident. No statements from Omani or Iranian authorities had been published on the strike.
