The Israeli freighter Shikma capsized and sank in the Red Sea yesterday. But all 31 crew members and the wives of three of them were rescued by the Swedish freighter Arina and are enroute to Port Said, according to the Zim Lines, owner of the Shikma.
The disaster was the second to hit Israel’s merchant marine since March 8 when the 19,000-ton bulk carrier Mezada of the Zim Lines foundered in the North Atlantic near Bermuda with the loss of 24 lives.
The Zim Lines said the Shikma was enroute from Eilat to Durban, South Africa with over 300 containers when she developed a list early yesterday morning. Her Master ordered the crew into the lifeboats. The ship sank before salvage tugs summoned by wireless could reach her.
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