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A search is underway after a British-flagged cargo ship sank in the North Sea following a collision with a bulk carrier with at least six people thought missing.
Publicly available data from the Verity’s Automatic Information System, a legally mandated safety and navigation device fitted to all large seagoing ships, the vessel last was able to report its position around 0300 local time. According to its filed plan, it was eight hours out of the port of Bremen in Germany and headed to the British port of Immingham.
Other ships that have come to the aid of the lost Verity include two coastguard vessels and an ocean liner, which are being assisted by a helicopter.in a maritime incident in 2006 when its engine failed off the south British coast in rough weather. Two RNLI lifeboats and a Dutch warship were engaged in a 34-hour fight to save the ship — which was carrying 3,000 tons of scrap metal — by towing it away from the coast.
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