The Yarmouth RNLI Lifeboat was called out to a stricken oil tanker, the 145m long Liberian oil tanker called Chem Alya, when it run aground on a sandbank on the evening of Monday 25th October.
The incident is being picked up by www.isleofwight.com’s live stream from the Needles.
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| picture by www.isleofwight.com |
High tide was not due until the early hours of the next morning.
The tanker eventually started to refloat a couple of hours before high tide which was due at 2am and was then able to return to Southampton for checks before continuing its onward journey.
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