A Kuwaiti oil tanker was struck by a projectile above the waterline while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday evening, United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations reported, according to reports.
The vessel was identified as Al-Salam II and was heading east through the waterway at the time of the impact, the British maritime monitor said. The item was carried by reports under the headline "Kuwaiti tanker hit in latest Hormuz shipping attack 6 UK maritime monitor" and was dated 28 August 2026.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations was cited as the source of the incident details in the published report. The monitor told the news outlet on Thursday that the projectile struck above the tankers waterline.
reports presented the report as an account of the most recent incident in the area; the newspapers headline described the event as the latest attack in the Strait of Hormuz. The published item supplied the identity of the tanker and the basic circumstances of the strike.
Incident description
According to the report, the impact was recorded while the ship was transiting eastbound through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday evening. The only technical detail given in the cited statement was that the object struck above the waterline of Al-Salam II.
The report did not provide further technical or operational details about the projectile or the precise location of the strike within the waterway. No additional information on casualties, pollution, damage beyond the point of impact, or the tankers subsequent movements was included in the published summary supplied to this desk.
Reporting and attribution
Sources published the account and dated it 28 August 2026. The article attributed the information to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which was described in the report as a British maritime monitor.
The text carried the identification of the vessel and the timing of the incident as relayed by the monitor. Beyond those elements, the published item limited its factual claims to the single projectile impact above the waterline while the tanker was heading east through the Strait of Hormuz.
The material available to this office does not include independent confirmation or supplementary statements from the tankers owners, operators, or classification and salvage authorities. It also does not include further operational details from maritime authorities about navigational warnings or changes to regional transits.
The reports item is the source for the factual points reported here: the name of the tanker, the reported time and direction of transit, and the description that a projectile struck above the vessels waterline, as attributed to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations.
The limited information supplied prevents further factual elaboration on the cause, the type of projectile, the perpetrator, or the sequence of events surrounding the strike. This account confines itself to the elements recorded in the cited report.