ANKARA (Reuters) - A dry cargo vessel broke in two in the Black Sea off Turkey’s northwest coast, television images showed early on Sunday, while the 11-man crew was rescued.

Mongolian flag carrying Leonardo, a 114-meter-long dry cargo ship, started buckling and broke in two while on anchor off Istanbul’s Kilyos coast.

Half of the ship was taken ashore by tugboats, while the remainder is in the water gradually sinking.

Turkish media reports said the ship, constructed in 1975, was going to Istanbul’s Tuzla dockyard for repairs. </s> ISTANBUL, Aug 28 — A dry cargo vessel broke in two in the Black Sea off Turkey's northwest coast, images shot by Turkey's Kaptan News Agency showed early yesterday, while the 11-man crew was rescued.

Mongolian flag carrying Leonardo, a 114-metre-long dry cargo ship, started buckling and broke in two while on anchor off Istanbul's Kilyos coast.

Screengrab from the Reuters video of a cargo vessel breaking up in the Black Sea off the Turkish coast.Half of the ship was taken ashore by tugboats, while the remainder is in the water gradually sinking.

Turkish media reports said the ship, constructed in 1975, was going to Istanbul's Tuzla dockyard for repairs. — Reuters </s> Share this article with Google Plus

One of the main jobs of a ship is to stay in one piece.

But this Mongolian cargo ship couldn’t manage that – as it split right in two while in the Black Sea.

Fortunately, the 11-man crew that was on board was quickly rescued by Turkish authorities.

The Leonardo, a 114-metre-long dry cargo ship, was anchored near Istanbul at the time.

However, it suddenly buckled and broke clean in two.

Tugboats came along to pull away half of the ship to shore, while the other half was left to sink.

Turkish media reported that, at 42 years old, the ship was pretty much on its last legs.

It was sailing to Istanbul’s Tuzla dockyard – ironically, for repairs.

Turkey’s General Directorate of Coastal Safety sent eight ships, including search and rescue towboats, to the scene.

All crew members were then taken to the hospital to be looked over, and are believed to be safe. </s> This is the horrifying moment a cargo boat breaks in two as an 11-man crew are dramatically rescued from the middle of the sea.

The dry cargo vessel started buckling and literally split in to two neat halves just off the coast if Kilyos in Istanbul.

It carried a Mongolian flag on it and bore the words: "Leandro" on the side.

In tense scenes, the two chunks of boat can be seen floating in the water just metres apart from eachother.

Half of the ship was taken ashore by tugboats, but the other half is still in the sea and is expected to gradually sink.

Those aboard the 114 metre long ship had to be carefully rescued and were taken to hospital .

Eight ships, including the search and rescue boats, were sent to the scene.

The ship was constructedi n 1975 and is believed to have been going to Istanbul for repairs. </s> Footage captured a dry cargo vessel split in two in the Black Sea off Istanbul’s Kilyos coast, Sunday. A total of 11 crewmen were rescued and taken to the hospital. The 114-meter (374 feet) long cargo vessel, built in 1975, was reportedly carrying a Mongolian flag. According to reports, the vessel was en route to Istanbul’s Tuzla dockyard for repairs. Following the operation, half of the ship was taken ashore by tugboats, while the other half was left sinking.

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RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark. </s> (MOSCOW) — A Russian naval reconnaissance ship sank Thursday after colliding with a freighter off Istanbul, but all crew members were rescued, the Defense Ministry said.

Turkey's coastal safety authority said all 78 personnel from the Russian frigate Liman were safe, as were all crew aboard the freighter, the Togo-flagged Youzarsif H. The freighter was carrying livestock.

The Defense Ministry said a hole was punched in the starboard side of the Liman during the collision, which occurred around midday Thursday about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of the Bosphorus Strait. The cause of the collision wasn't immediately clear.

The Liman was part of the Black Sea Fleet. The Interfax news agency reported that it spent much of the winter in the Mediterranean off the coast of Syria and returned to the Black Sea to monitor NATO exercises in February.

The rescued Russian sailors were all aboard a Turkish rescue vessel and would be picked up by a nearby Russian cargo ship, the Ulus Star, the ministry said, without specifying the number of crew members. It said the cargo ship would deliver the sailors to the home base of the Black Sea Fleet, which is on Crimea, the peninsula Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. </s> Share this article with Google Plus

A 225-metre-long ship has crashed into a historic mansion in Istanbul after its rudder failed.

The Hekimbaşı Salih Efendi mansion was built in the 18th century and regularly hosts weddings and concerts.

It was severely damaged in the collision, with splinted wood and holes in the walls clearly visible from the river.

Turkey’s Bosporus Strait was closed to boats for several hours yesterday afternoon, the Daily Sabah reported.

The vessel, called The Vitaspirit, had a Maltese flag and was heading to Saudi Arabia from Russia.

No environmental threats have been reported from the accident and no-one was injured during the crash.

Every year over 50,000 vessels pass through the Bosporus, an S-shaped channel with sharp turns and changing currents, and it has been an accident black spot for a century.

A Romanian tanker and a Greek freighter collided and exploded in November 1979, killing 42 crew members aboard the Romanian tanker.

In 2003, a Georgian-flagged vessel ran aground resulting in a spill of 480 tons of oil.

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MORE: ‘For sale’ shed that’s about to fall off cliff probably isn’t a bargain </s> Istanbul: A Russian naval intelligence ship sank on Thursday after colliding with a merchant freighter in the Black Sea near Istanbul, the Turkish coast guard said. All 78 crew members on the Russian vessel were rescued.The crew of the freighter, a Togo-flagged ship travelling from Romania to Jordan and carrying 8800 sheep, was unharmed and the ship suffered slight damage to its bow, according to local media reports.In Moscow, Russia's Defence Ministry issued a statement confirming that the vessel, the Liman, went down after the collision tore a hole in the hull below the waterline.Russian officials did not immediately provide any information about the Liman's mission.

Start the conversation, or Read more at The Daily Millbury. </s> ISTANBUL, April 27 (Reuters) - A Togo-flagged ship collided with a Russian intelligence vessel near Turkey's Black Sea Coast on Thursday, and some 78 crew members had been evacuated from the Russian ship, a Turkish coastal safety official told Reuters.

Broadcaster NTV said earlier the Russian vessel collided with a ship carrying livestock. The Turkish official did not give any details on the Togo-flagged ship, or the condition of its crew.
A dry cargo vessel broke in two in the Black Sea off Turkey’s northwest coast, television images showed early on Sunday, while the 11-man crew was rescued. Leonardo, a 114 meters (374 ft)-long dry cargo ship flagged from Mongolia, started buckling and broke in two while on anchor off Istanbul’s Kilyos coast.