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March 22, 2023Tweet
A large ship was dislodged from its holding and partially tipped over in the Scottish capital Edinburgh on Wednesday, leaving 33 people injured. The Scottish Ambulance Service sent 12 ambulances, an air ambulance, three trauma teams, a special operations team, three paramedic response units and three patient transport vehicles to the scene. The Edinburgh Police Division said its officers and other emergency services were at the site of the incident, which happened just before 8:30 a.m. local time.Images from the scene show the ship, identified as the Research Vessel Petrel, tipped to the side at a 45-degree angle. The 76-meter (251-feet) 3,000-ton ship was funded by the late Microsoft founder Paul Allen and became famous in recent years after discovering a number of long-lost shipwrecks.
Allen died in 2018 from complications related to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The Petrel has been in long-term mooring and has not been deployed since June 2020 due to operational challenges from the pandemic. According to a Met Office observation, the area was hit by gale-strength wind gusts around the time of the incident. Dales Marine, the company that runs the dry dock where the accident happened, said it was liaising with the emergency services and added it would not comment any further.