A merchant vessel was struck near Hengam Island in the Strait of Hormuz early on Sunday 13 September 2026, killing one crew member and wounding four, according to the governor of Qeshm city on Qeshm Island 1. The Islamic Republic News Agency described it as an Iranian container ship hit by an unidentified projectile 2. UKMTO, the Royal Navy-run reporting centre for merchant traffic in the region, logged the incident and told vessels to transit with caution while authorities investigate 3.
No outlet reached gives the vessel a name, a flag, a registration number, an operator or a cargo 4. A hull number gives an underwriter a flag state to ask, a class society to call and a port of refuge to watch, and none of that is available here. The same gap appeared on 18 August, when an unclaimed projectile killed a crew member aboard an outbound vessel in the strait and no name, flag or operator was ever published .
One Iranian official, who was not named, attributed the strike to "the US terrorist enemy" and offered no evidence 5. No named Iranian institution made that attribution in the reporting reached, and no party has claimed the attack. The International Maritime Organization's confirmed-incident record stood at 75 incidents and 22 seafarer deaths on 10 September , a register that counts hulls and crews rather than claims, and this casualty has no hull to add to it.
