Ship carrying cars worth €45m sinks

THE operation to salvage a cargo ship which sank in the English Channel carrying over €45 million worth of luxury cars was continuing yesterdayThe Tricolor, a Norwegian-registered car carrier, had 2,862 BMWs, Volvos and Saabs on board bound for British and US showrooms when it collided with the Bahamas-registered container ship Kariba in bad weather 30 miles east of Ramsgate.

The crew of 24 scrambled into lifeboats as the 50,000-ton, 200-metre ship went down within 90 minutes of the collision.

The men were taken to Dunkirk but were not thought to be injured.