Crane ships begin raising Norwegian navy ship damaged by oil tanker


  • World
  • Tuesday, 26 Feb 2019

OSLO (Reuters) - Two crane ships early on Tuesday began raising a submerged Norwegian navy frigate which collided with an oil tanker in November and has remained stranded off Norway's west coast since, the armed forces said.

The accident injured eight people and caused the temporary closure of a North Sea crude export terminal, Norway's top gas processing plant and several offshore fields.

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