Tanker broke loose from towline in English Channel

May 06 2021


Tanker VARZUGA, understood to be unmanned and on tow to the Aliaga scrap yard in Turkey, broke loose on the afternoon of May 4th in the English Channel north of Cherbourg France.

 

 

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