60 Safe After Ship Runs Aground Off Scotland
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<i> Associated Press</i>
LERWICK, Scotland — Rescue helicopters and a lifeboat battled through a North Sea gale Tuesday to safely rescue all 60 people from a grounded Latvian fishing vessel.
The Coast Guard said the 2,774-ton Lunohods-1 ran onto rocks before dawn about 1 1/2 miles southeast of Lerwick, the capital of the northeast Shetland Islands.
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