Disabled cargo ship towed back to eastern Newfoundland port: coast guard
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A disabled cargo ship was towed back into shore Monday after running into trouble in rough North Atlantic seas, just two days after it left the Newfoundland port it had been stuck in for years.
The Canadian Coast Guard said Monday that the MV Baby Leeyn arrived in the port of Argentia at about 8 a.m. local time after being towed by MT Placentia Hope and accompanied by the coast guard ship Sir William Alexander.
“We got everything back into port and we didn’t have any release of pollutants,” Larry Crann, a senior response officer with the Canadian Coast Guard, said from St. John’s.
The Baby Leeyn’s 11-person crew had set sail for Romania Saturday on what was to be the ship’s first journey since being stuck in Argentia in 2014 when it experienced similar engine problems.