The 60,000-ton merchant ship that caught fire last month carrying around 4,000 Lamborghini, Porsche, Bentley, Audi, and Volkswagen vehicles sank in the Atlantic Ocean
The Felicity Ace, a cargo ship carrying thousands of cars including Porsches and Bentleys to the port of Davisville, R.I., caught fire last week and was adrift in the mid-Atlantic after the crew was evacuated. Burning electric vehicle batteries complicated efforts to battle the blaze. Photo: Portuguese Navywith thousands of luxury vehicles on board sank Tuesday morning, the ship’s management company said.
MOL Ship Management Singapore Pte Ltd, which owns the company that operates the ship, said the Felicity Ace sank around 9 a.m. local time about 220 nautical miles off Portugal’s Azores islands after it began to take on water and tilt to one side.
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