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It was 1 o’clock on Saturday that m / s Viking Grace ran aground a few feet from land in Mariehamn. At that time, 331 passengers and 98 crew members were on board.
The people on board got spend the night on the ferry waiting for the winds to calm down. Early Sunday morning, the ship could be unloaded from the ground with the help of a tugboat, writes the Western Finnish Maritime Surveillance Section on Twitter.
At 03.40 m / s, Viking Grace reached the Mariehamn pier. At 09:00 hours the evacuation of the people on board began.
The authorities then allowed the ship to carry the Finnish passengers to Turku, where it arrived around 8 p.m. Sunday night. Grace was accompanied by the Zeus tugboat, but there was no risk to the safety of the passengers.
Grace will now be taken to Turku Repair Yards for inspection, writes Swedish Yle.
Swedish passengers received Continue back to Stockholm with the m / s Amorella ferry on Sunday afternoon.
What caused the grounding is unknown, but according to SMHI, it was blowing hard at the time.
– It will have to be investigated by us together with the authorities, says Eleonora Hansi.
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