You almost certainly aren't going to believe this, but that car-carrying cargo ship that almost capsized in the English Channel earlier this month has managed to limp back to port. And many of the cars onboard seem to be pretty much undamaged, with some even having been driven out under their own power.
Granted, to judge from the press images that we've seen, including those at the U.K. Daily Mail, many of the other cars that were onboard have been dinged up well beyond the point of "that'll buff right out." But seeing that the 51,000-ton Hoegh Osaka spent most of the month parked at a 60-degree angle on a sandbank, getting anything off in one piece has to count as victory—and some seriously good work by the salvage team that rebalanced the vessel. It also makes the deliberate grounding of the ship when it developed its list leaving Southampton docks look like an extremely canny piece of parking.
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A spokesman for Hoegh Autoliners told the BBC that the ship itself has suffered minimal damage, so the insurance company has dodged a big check there. As for the cars onboard, the damaged ones are almost certain to be scrapped rather than salvaged—most automakers refuse to deliver cars that have suffered significant injury before registration. But the undamaged ones are likely to make it to their intended destinations, three weeks late and with a tale to tell.
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