Salvage team gets control of stricken ship off Norway’s coast

The unmanned Dutch cargo ship Eemslift Hendrika (Coast Guard Ship Sortland/AP)

A joint Norwegian-Dutch salvage operation defied heavy seas to get an abandoned Dutch cargo ship under control off the coast of Norway and was towing the ship to port.

Norwegian officials said the rescue operation of the Eemslift Hendrika, a Netherlands-registered ship designed to carry large boats, was completed early on Thursday and the ship is slowly being towed to the western city of Alesund.