Ship collides with pier in fierce storm forcing crew to abandon vessel
Herminia, a powerful storm raging over western Europe, threw a cargo ship off course in Italy late on Tuesday and sent it crashing against a pier in a picturesque Tuscan sea resort. Thirteen seafarers safely evacuated the 10,000-dwt Guang Rong (built 2001), which grounded at Marina di Massa on the Ligurian coast.