Container ship and trawler collide

Mon, 11 Apr 2011

Gibralta registered container ship 'Philipp' was in collision with a trawler on Saturday

Marine accident investigators are looking into an incident at the weekend when a container ship and a trawler crashed off the Manx coast.

It happened early on Saturday morning five miles south of the Isle of Man.

The fishing vessel from Northern Ireland was badly damaged but nobody was injured.

Local lifeboats crews had to tow the trawler to Port St Mary.