BBC News, Thursday 11 June, 2009

The salvage operation to remove the final section of the wrecked container ship MSC Napoli has got under way.

Salvors working to raise the remains of the stern from the sea bed off the Devon coast have laid new chains under the hull to help them lift it.

The Napoli was deliberately grounded in January 2007 after her hull was damaged in a storm when she was was en-route from Antwerp to South Africa.

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