Wafaa
Tanker the Houthis claim to have struck off Yanbu on 5 August, unconfirmed by UKMTO.
Tanker the Houthi military claimed to have struck off Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, on 5 August 2026, a claim UKMTO has not corroborated.
Last refreshed: 6 August 2026 · Appears in 1 active topic
Timeline for Wafaa
Two tanker claims, one logged blast
Iran Conflict 2026Background
Wafaa is a tanker the Houthi military claims to have struck with a Ballistic missile off Yanbu, Saudi Arabia's Red Sea export terminal, on 5 August 2026. The claim came from Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree and has not been corroborated: UKMTO, the Royal Navy cell that logs merchant-shipping incidents, recorded no matching event near Yanbu as of 6 August .
Several wire reports merged the Wafaa claim with a separate, unrelated strike claim on a tanker named Daisy in the Gulf of Aden, over 800 nautical miles away, compounding the confusion around what, if anything, happened near Yanbu.
No flag state, owner, insurer or official body has confirmed the vessel's identity or that any strike occurred. The record consists entirely of the Houthi claim; it should be treated as unverified rather than dismissed, since vessels in this corridor routinely decline to report incidents.
Was the tanker Wafaa actually struck near Yanbu?
Who claimed the strike on the tanker Wafaa?
Is the Wafaa the same tanker as the Daisy?
