A container ship adrift in a major shipping lane off the coast of Essex in the UK has managed to restart its journey.
Weather conditions were worsening when lifeboats from the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) attended the scene approximately 20 miles off the coast, a key route between Hamburg and the UK on Saturday.
The crew of the ANL Warringa were eventually able to halt the vessel’s drift and get an anchor down near a windfarm. BBC News reports that one lifeboat remained on the scene awaiting the arrival of commercial tugs to tow the ship to port.
About midnight on Saturday, the ship’s engineers were able to restart the engines.
The 50,000 ton vessel, with a crew of 28, was on its way to Hamburg from Tilbury.
Essex lifeboats called to drifting container ship
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28 March 2015
- From the sectionEssex

Lifeboats have been called out to a container ship off the coast of Essex which had been reported to be drifting in a major shipping lane.
Lifeboats from Walton and Frinton, and the Harwich, were called out at about noon to the ANL Warringa.
It was reported to be drifting in the North Sea, 20 miles (32 km) off the Essex coast, in the key route between Hamburg and the East Coast ports.
The ship has managed to get an anchor down, not far from a wind turbine.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institute said one lifeboat would stay with the ship, while they waited for commercial tugs to pull the ship to port.
The vessel was on its way to Hamburg from Tilbury.

BBC