A fire which swept through a cargoshipcarrying thousands of luxury cars and adrift off the coast of Portugal's Azores islands has lost its intensity, probably because there is little left to burn, a port official said. The Felicity Ace, carrying around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis...
The latest entry is the Felicity Ace, a car-carrier that was carrying an unspecified number of Volkswagen Group vehicles, including Porsche models, from Germany to Rhode Island. That was the ship's mission until yesterday, when a fire broke out on board. The flames were bad enough that the...
“Our immediate thoughts are of the 22 crew of the merchant ship “Felicity Ace”, all of whom we understand are safe and well as a result of their rescue by the Portuguese Navy following reports of a fire on board. We believe a number of our cars are among the cargo on board the s...
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Heavy tug boats on Tuesday sprayed water on a burning ship carrying thousands of Porsches and Bentleys adrift off the coast of Portugal's Azores islands, the ship's manager said in a statement. The Felicity Ace, carrying around 4,000 vehicles including Porsches, Audis, and Bentleys, some...
A large cargo vessel carrying luxury cars from Germany to the United States sank Tuesday in the mid-Atlantic, 13 days after afire broke out on board, the ship's manager and the Portuguese navysaid. The cars on board the Felicity Ace included Porsches, Lamborghinis and Bentleys, the Wall ...
Details can be found on the websites of the operators. The cargo-carrying section of the ship is divided into several holds with the containers racked in special frameworks and stacked one upon the other within the hold space. Containers may also be stacked on hatch covers and secured by ...
A full five days after the cargo ship and the luxury cars it was carrying on board began to burn 90 nautical miles southwest of Portugal’s Azores islands, captain João Mendes Cabeças told the Portuguese news agency Lusa that “the fire had subsided in recent hours,” thanks to a lack...
At the time of the fire, the ship was carrying an estimated 1,200 vehicles and 157 containers aboard that were slated to be exported, the Coast Guard previously reported. None of the vehicles were believed to be electric. Merchant described the ongoing firefight as an "extremely complex operat...
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