Posts Tagged ‘boat’

Tourists dead in Vietnam sinking

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

At least 12 are feared dead, among them foreign tourists, after a tour boat sinks in Vietnam’s Halong Bay.

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Tourists dead in Vietnam sinking

British men missing after boat capsizes

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

Two British men are missing after going overboard, when a wave crashed into their boat in northern Portugal on Saturday morning.

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British men missing after boat capsizes

Police: Nearly 50 dead in shipwreck

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Australian authorities on Monday raised the death toll of asylum-seekers killed last week in a shipwreck on Christmas Island to 48, possibly more than half of the passengers on the boat.

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Police: Nearly 50 dead in shipwreck

Australian shipwreck ‘killed 48′

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard says as many as 48 asylum seekers may have been killed when their boat sank off Christmas Island.

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Australian shipwreck ‘killed 48′

Refugee Boat Sinks Near Australia

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Dozens of suspected asylum seekers died on Wednesday after their boat smashed into the rocks of Christmas Island near Australia’s western coastline.

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Refugee Boat Sinks Near Australia

Cruise boat runs aground on Missouri lake, passengers OK

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

Hundreds of people were stranded on a paddleboat in a Missouri lake early Sunday, hours after it ran aground during a cruise, a spokeswoman for the company that owns the boat said.

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Cruise boat runs aground on Missouri lake, passengers OK

Angler is rescued from Lough Erne

Monday, November 29th, 2010

An angler is rescued from Lough Erne after his boat struck ice on Monday night.

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Angler is rescued from Lough Erne

Belgian ship attacked in Cameroon

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Two sailors are taken hostage from a ship by an armed gang off the Cameroon coast, the boat’s Belgian owners say.

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Belgian ship attacked in Cameroon

Father and son hit by propeller

Friday, August 27th, 2010

A father and son from Stoke-on-Trent are seriously injured after being thrown from their boat off the coast of Cornwall and run over twice by the outboard motor.

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Father and son hit by propeller