11:12 am, January 28, 2015
SOME of the cars which were inside the rescued cargo ship Hoegh Osaka have now been retrieved from the vessel, having suffered varying degrees of damage.
The 51,000-tonne ship was run aground off the South Coast earlier this month and spent almost three weeks stranded on a sandbank in the Solent.
It ran into trouble when an excavator on board came loose and punched a hole in the hull.
The first batch of #SuperCar to be taken of the #HoeghOsaka #RangeRover #Porsche pic.twitter.com/roh4kiqgoB
— steve.c (@CarSnapped) January 27, 2015
The vessel had a cargo of 1,400 cars and more than 100 pieces of construction kit on board. The vehicles inside included 1,200 Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles and 65 Minis.
A spokesman for Hoegh Autoliners said that most of the cars had survived without suffering any damage, while others had sustained minor dents and scratches.
A small number of the vehicles were thought to have spent time under water.
The full discharge process is expected to have been completed by the end of this week.
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