Ship beached 'to cut catastrophe'
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The beaching of the MSC Napoli near a World Heritage Site was to stop a wider environmental catastrophe, a minister says.
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HEAVY seas and high winds were last night hampering an operation involving British and Irish ships to rescue a Canadian submarine with 57 crew on board.
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Canadian submarine HMCS Chicoutimi drifts in heavy seas Wednesday after losing power due to a fire accident. AFP. DUBLIN  - British tug boats sailed Thursday to join a major rescue operation for a Canadian
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FASLANE, Scotland (CP) - The homeward voyage of Canada's crippled submarine has been delayed by bad weather in Scotland.
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A storm-lashed cargo ship which was abandoned by its crew after listing to 40 degrees sank early Tuesday in the English Channel, coastguards said.
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Canada will hold a naval inquiry into the cause of a fire that broke out on a submarine last week, killing one sailor and leaving the vessel drifting in the Atlantic, Canadian Defense
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Wrecks and abandoned munitions around the British coast risk exploding unpredictably, an expert says.
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An air-sea rescue was under way in the North Atlantic last night after a fire on a former British submarine sold to Canada in a controversial deal left the vessel drifting at sea.
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Passengers and non-essential crew were airlifted off a ferry that had been at risk of capsizing in the Irish Sea during a storm on Thursday and later ran aground, coastguards said.
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Bad weather is hampering efforts to salvage a lifeboat stranded on rocks at Rathlin Island, off the Antrim coast.
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A container ship which was grounded off the picturesque southern English coast six months ago was refloated on Monday, officials said.
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Salvage teams fear for three stranded ships, with warnings of more bad weather across the country
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A beached coal ship carrying hundreds of tons of fuel and diesel oil remained intact Sunday as crews rushed to prepared a plan for salvaging the massive freighter.
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Twenty crew have been rescued from a ship which is listing in the Channel about 35 miles off the Devon coast.
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Water sports enthusiasts are warned to stay clear of timber from a sunken cargo ship as a beach is closed.
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The skipper of super-maxi, Skandia, has called for more safety features to be built into ocean racing yachts. The Skandia crew abandoned the boat on Tuesday after the keel was damaged in rough conditions in Bass Strait.
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Hundreds of passengers aboard a luxury British cruise liner heading for the tropics instead found themselves contemplating the wind-swept skyline of industrial Southampton after the vessel broke down.