Tale of two ships - one beached, another sinks
Crew ground listing vessel loaded with 1,400 cars off UK port; other ship sinks during storm off Scotland
London
SEEN from some angles, tilting at a crazy angle in shallow water, it might almost resemble a huge plaything discarded by capricious giants.
Since the weekend, a 57,000-tonne, 590-foot car transporter, the Hoegh Osaka, has been aground on Bramble Bank, a well-marked sandbank off the British port of Southampton, beached deliberately by its crew to prevent the vessel from capsizing after it began to list on Saturday.
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