Briefly: Ship rescue
A MASTER and mate stayed aboard a sinking ship in the Channel after it was in collision with a cargo vessel. Twenty crew members of the Chinese-registered Ming Fortune escaped in lifeboats to a passing British tanker and were later airlifted to Lydd, Kent.
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