A volunteer lifeboat crew from the UK's Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) came to the aid of Finnish shipping company Finnlines' RoRo vessel after the ship made a distress call in the early morning of 11 November 2025.
The cause was a fire in the engine room around 20 kilometres south-east of Eastbourne/East Sussex. When the lifeboat crew arrived in moderate seas and winds of around 5 Beaufort, the crew of the "Finnwave" (33,800 tonnes, ice class 1A) had successfully extinguished the fire, but the 217-metre-long freighter had lost propulsion and dropped anchor. The lifeboat remained on site until the anchor had been successfully lowered and then returned to the station. The coastguard remained in radio contact with the "Finnwave" during the repair work. No crew members were injured.
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