Kiel Canal Collisions Leave 4 Ships Damaged
Police said that two collisions within 12 hours in the approaches to the Kiel Canal on Wednesday left four ships, including a submarine, damaged, one crew member injured and a half-mile oil slick on the water.
A spokesman for the Kiel harbor police said the first collision came early Wednesday when the 371-ton German coastal vessel Wilhemine Oltmann and the German navy submarine U-28 collided off Brunnsbuettel at the North Sea end of the canal.
Less than 12 hours later, a Soviet Baltiski-class freighter collided with the privately owned tug Elbe III at the Baltic end of the canal.
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