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Cebu News

Ship enroute to Cebu runs aground

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January 3, 2008 | 12:00am

Some 933 passengers were stranded between the waters off Isabel, Leyte and Camotes Island when M/V Roble Shipping Lines’ Heaven Star had engine trouble noon time yesterday.

Coastguard Central Visayas Deputy Commander Rolando Legaspi said that M/V Heaven Star ran aground and water seeped into the ship’s machine causing oil delusion.

Legaspi said that the management of Roble Shipping sent their sister ship M/V Wonderful Star to rescue the stranded passengers.

M/V Heaven Star came from Leyte and was on its way to Cebu. — Jasmin R. Uy/QSB

CEBU

COASTGUARD CENTRAL VISAYAS DEPUTY COMMANDER ROLANDO LEGASPI

HEAVEN STAR

JASMIN R

LEGASPI

LEYTE AND CAMOTES ISLAND

ROBLE SHIPPING

V HEAVEN STAR

V ROBLE SHIPPING LINES

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