Blog: Mystery remains over cargo vessel
September 28, 2009 at 11:51 pm • Posted in news • 12 Comments
Mystery still surrounds a missing Russian-manned cargo ship, with a sighting off Africa’s Cape Verde islands still to be confirmed.
The Arctic Sea, with 15 Russian crew members on board, was last sighted in the Bay of Biscay on 30 July.
Cape Verde officials say they think the ship is 400 nautical miles (740km) off one of the islands.
But Moscow’s envoy to Cape Verde said he had not been informed of any confirmed sighting.
The 4,000-tonne Maltese-flagged vessel, which had been carrying timber, went off radar after passing through the English Channel
