Norwegian navy ship sinks

A shipwrecked Norwegian navy frigate that collided with an oil tanker off the Norwegian coast last week was almost completely submerged on Wednesday (November 14), pictures taken by the Norwegian Coastal Administration showed.

The Norwegian military has been working since Thursday (November 8) to attempt to salvage the ship, the KNM Helge Ingstad, by tethering it with several wires to the shore. Some of them had broken.

The ship was stranded off Norway’s west coast early last Thursday after it collided with an oil tanker that had left the nearby Sture crude export terminal. The facility was shut for several hours as a result.

Eight Navy staff, out of a total crew of 137, were lightly injured in the accident.