Second oil-rig in trouble
CV.Z.P A.-Reuter—Copyright) ABERDEEN, Jan. 3. A crippled North Sea oil- ' rig is being towed to iStavangar. Norway, with 14 I members of the crew still \ aboard. Transworld 61 is the; second rig to have run into! difficulties off the coast of I ;Scotland in 24 hours: on; (Tuesday night, the American-! owned rig. Transocean Three,; (listed, capsized, and sank in a position only a few miles from Transworld 61. The ‘crew were airlifted to safety ■by helicopter. , The Aberdeen Coast Guard Isays that Transworld 61 has [suffered structural damage to [two of its legs. ; Forty-eight of its crew! ;were transferred to a supply; I ship. I
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33424, 4 January 1974, Page 9
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