Royal Navy sailors aboard the frigate HMS Argyll have saved the 27 crew of a container ship which turned into a raging inferno off the French coast in the Bay of Biscay…
The crew of HMS Argyll spent eight hours saving every soul aboard the Grande America after the ship’s cargo caught fire. The frigate – on her way home to Plymouth after nine months away in the Asia-Pacific region – responded to a mayday from the 28,000-tonne merchant ship about 150 miles southwest of Brest: the crew were fighting a losing battle against the flames and were abandoning ship into 5m to 6m seas at night.
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