Napoli all over again?

A year ago only a few people will have heard of the Napoli. Then it began to sink in the English Channel of the south coast of Devon. It was taken in tow but was in danger of sinking and it was run aground on to a beach a few miles from here. For a few days it was the most famous ship in the world as looters turned up to see what they could steal.Yesterday no one had heard of the Ice Prince but it too got into trouble in the Channel in bad weather. Yesterday evening the crew were rescued, some by helicopter and the rest by the Torbay Lifeboat, from the listing ship. The weather has shown no sign of improvement and there are serious concerns that the Ice Prince will sink. It has already lost over 5000 tons of deck cargo, mainly timber which is floating round out there in heavy seas and is just waiting for some scavenger to turn up and collect it, go for it boys, just like the Napoli last year.

Picture from a French news paper. I like taking photos but I'm not that mad.

The Napoli; almost gone?

The Napoli is being fitted with explosive charges which will be detonated this afternoon. The idea is to separate the front from the back. The back end, which is falling apart, will be towed out to sea and allowed to sink. The front end will be towed to a dock some where and broken in to small pieces and, hopefully, sold as souvenirs to holidaymakers, the profits being given to all those who have lost out in this tragic event.(Now there's an idea). At some time in the future the back end will be ether recovered or left to rot and turn into a man made reef for marine life to live on. Which is only right. Enough marine life has been lost. Some good should come out of it.

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Will we finally to be rid of this troublesome ship?