Stricken ship at risk of sinking
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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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French and Spanish rescue aircraft and boats went to the assistance of a cruise ship limping in the Mediterranean with more than 700 people aboard Monday after a storm knocked out its engines, maritime officials said.
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A Japanese whaling ship left crippled by fire could turn into an environmental disaster as the vessel drifts near one of the world's largest penguin breeding grounds on the Antarctic coast, officials warned Thursday.
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A Bulgarian cargo ship with 11 seamen on  board sank in rough weather in the Sea of Azov on the border  between Russia and Ukraine on Thursday, the Bulgarian  coastguard said.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a  Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian  island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a  sensitive area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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A newly-wed couple are among those lifted to safety after a ship was hit by a giant wave off the Isles of Scilly.
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Ice threatened to trap a damaged  Japanese whaling ship stranded off Antarctica, anti-whaling  activists said on Monday, raising fears of an environmental  disaster close to a major penguin colony.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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Rescue tugs are on the way to a stricken Canadian submarine stranded off the north-west coast after one of her crew lost his life to the catastrophe.
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Environmental campaigner Greenpeace said a stricken Japanese whaler off the Antarctic coast had asked its protest ship Esperanza to stay close as fears of an ecological disaster mount.
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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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A fresh operation has begun to rescue a ship's captain who was badly injured in a gale near the Isles of Scilly.
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A rescue operation has been launched off the west of Scotland to help the crew of a Latvian cargo ship in trouble in heavy seas.
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Investing: Cruising to Disaster
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British ships battled through rough weather on Wednesday to reach a Canadian navy submarine with 57 crewmembers on board that was drifting in the Atlantic after an electrical fire that officials said was more severe than originally thought.
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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 tugboat which sank last month claiming the lives of three crewmen is being transported to a dock.