ALLEGRA

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Bulkcarrier disabled and adrift off Heligoland

In the evening of Dec 26, 2016, the "Allegra", enroute from Newport, UK, where she had sailed on Dec 23, to Bremen, suffered a failure of the main engine SE of Heligoland and went adrift in stormy seas. The German emergency tug "Nordic" was called to assist the bulkcarrier which was threatened to be pushed aground on a sandbar near the Knechtsand. The tug took the ship in tow and pulled it to a mooring 100 meters off the bar where it waited until the storm abated. On Dec 27 the three tugs "Elbe" (IMO: 9323156), "Ems" (IMO: 9323168) and "Turm" (IMO: 9211212) were called from Wilhelmshaven resp. Bremerhaven and started to tow the "Allegra" to Bremerhaven on Dec 28. The ship berthed at the Lloyd Yard at 10.45 a.m. to be repaired by German Dry Dock (GDD). German report and photos: http://nord24.de/bremerhaven/frachter-drohte-auf-sandbank-in-der-weser-zu-treiben http://nok-schiffsbilder.de/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=76486&cid=6 http://nok-schiffsbilder.de/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=76485&cid=6