Two Ships Collide in North Sea - Dec 5,2012

 

Four crew members have died and seven are still missing in the icy waters of the North Sea, after a cargo ship collided with another vessel in the dark and sank off the Dutch coast on Dec 5,2012

The 23,000-tonne car carrier Baltic Ace, registered in the Bahamas, collided with the Cypriot registered Corvus J, a container ship, at around 7.15pm (6.15pm BST) some 60 miles from Rotterdam in waters off the southern Dutch coast.

 

Baltic Ace was heading from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge to Kotka in Finland and the Corvus J was on its way from Grangemouth in Scotland to Antwerp, Belgium