Grounded ship refloated off UK coast
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A container ship that ran aground off southern England and drew thousands of looters has been refloated, a coast guard official said Monday.
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Description: Conditions in the Bering Sea make any rescue attempt challenging for the Coast Guard in Alaska, which has responded to the grounded freighter near the Aleutian Islands.
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Coastguards are attempting to refloat a German container vessel which ran aground off the coast of Kent.
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A fresh attempt to rescue an injured ship's captain is under way, after being abandoned in "extreme" conditions.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The sealift of the Canadian navy submarine HMCS Chicoutimi has been postponed because of poor weather, the Defence Department has confirmed.
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The flagship of Britain's Royal Navy was forced to retreat back to base Wednesday -- by fears about a fridge.
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Explosives will be used for a second time on the freight ship grounded off the south coast of Devon after attempts to use tugboats to pull it apart failed.
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Some 350 of the 1,752 passengers of a luxury ocean liner stranded in a southern England port for 10 days because of technical problems disembarked, a spokeswoman for P and O Cruises company said.
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CORAL HARBOUR, Nunavut (CP) - An estimated 200 litres of fuel spilled near the northern coastal community of Coral Harbour during a resupply operation Friday, Nunavut officials said.
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A submarine left stranded in the Atlantic after a fire was seaworthy when it left the UK, the Canadian navy has said. The second-hand vessel was sold to Canada by the Royal Navy who earlier denied a refit was botched.
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A stricken cargo ship off the Devon coast is at risk of sinking if weather deteriorates over the next few days.
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LONDON -- A submarine that the Canadian Navy had just received from Britain was forced to surface off the Irish coast and send out a distress call yesterday after a fire broke out on board.
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Airline passengers have been grounded after unusually heavy snow forced the temporary closure of runways at several airports in England and Wales and caused disruption on the roads and rails.
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A ferry that ran into difficulties in the Irish Sea, prompting British and Irish rescue teams to be scrambled, ran aground Thursday evening at Blackpool, northwest England, officials said.
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Grounded container ship that attracted looters from across the country refloated off the Devon coast.
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Workers pumped fuel from a 600-foot freighter on Saturday in an attempt to refloat the vessel after it ran aground near a South Florida port.
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Shipwreck being broken up after efforts to refloat it failed.