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Feb 12, 2009 12:00 AM
Two tugs used to keep a disabled boxship from running aground on Western Australia's south coast last year were ill-equipped for the task, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has found,
The 42,795 dwt MSC Lugano was en route to Fremantle in March 2008 when a fire disabled her engines.
She subsequently drifted towards the Archipelago of the Recherche and was about 50 miles south of port of Esperance.
Three tugs...
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