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Stricken Solent ship: Hoegh Osaka on its way to Southampton port | |
(about 3 hours later) | |
Salvage teams working on the stranded car carrier Hoegh Osaka are towing it back to Southampton. | |
The degree of list on the 51,000-tonne ship has been reduced substantially allowing the vessel to be towed. | The degree of list on the 51,000-tonne ship has been reduced substantially allowing the vessel to be towed. |
It left at 14:30 GMT, earlier than planned, and is being towed up Southampton Water to Berth 101 at Southampton Docks. | |
The operaton is expected to take three to four hours. The ship was run aground on Bramble Bank on 3 January. | |
The Singapore-registered vessel which was originally listing at 52 degrees, has been refloated after salvers pumped out 3,000 tonnes of water. | |
The ship had been on its way to Germany when it developed a problem and has a cargo of 1,400 cars and 105 pieces of construction equipment. | |
It floated free from the sandbank on the high tide on 7 January and has since been anchored and held in position by tugs in deep water at Alpha Anchorage, near Lee-on-the-Solent. |