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Crews aboard the Golden Cecilie, a nearly 200-metre-long vessel, noticed the freighter was drifting and the anchor was dragging.
Unsuccessful attempts were made to drop a port anchor and stop the vessel from drifting toward another freighter.
Engineers started up the engine in an attempt to move away from the nearby Green K-Max 1, but the Golden Cecilie continued to drift and collided with the vessel twice, leaving a large hole in the Golden Cecilie. The anchor chains of both freighters became entangled, and they requested pilots and assist tugs to help untangle them and escort each vessel back to their anchorages.