
Photo: Portuguese navy
The car carrier Felicity Ace, carrying upwards of 4,000 vehicles, including more than 1,000 Porsches and 200 Bentleys, caught fire in the Atlantic off the Azores on February 16. After almost two weeks ablaze, the fire appeared to be under control. The ship was still quite hot, but smoke no longer billowed from the cargo decks. Then, yesterday morning, while under tow by the salvage tug Bear, the 650-foot-long car carrier capsized and sank.
The Portuguese navy said in a statement, “This morning, during the towing process, which had begun on Feb. 24, the ship ‘Felicity Ace’ lost stability and sank some 25 nautical miles outside of the limits of Portugal’s exclusive economic zone, in an area with a depth of about [9,842 feet].”