the ship has been involved in two incidents. on 22 march 2008 the ships mooring ropes parted resulting is her drifting across the eastern entrance of dover harbour. the ship was assisted back to her berth by a dover harbour tug. on 29 august 2008 the ship suffered a partial lost of electrical power which resulted in a collision with linkspan 7 in calais. "european endeavour"'s 'cow catcher', a metal structure welded to the bow to support the bow ramp when deployed, was demolished and significant damage was caused to the linkspan.