The ill-fated Cyprus-registered cargo vessel Cemfjord; she foundered in the Pentland Firth off the north-east coast of Scotland on 2 January with the presumed loss of her eight Polish crew members. Built as the general cargo ship Margareta in 1984, she was converted to carry cement in 1998 and was en route from Aalborg, Denmark to Runcorn, Cheshire when she capsized in bad weather in a tragedy that resulted in a major search operation being carried out in the Firth, which sadly ended with no survivors being found. Cemfjord had been a UK caller last year, when she was pictured sailing into the Mersey from the Manchester Ship Canal on 11 October 2014 after discharging a cargo of 2,000 tonnes of cement at Runcorn.
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