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Ferry hit sheet piles
On Dec 1, 2016, at 5.45 p.m. the "Altona" allided with the the sheet pile wall of the Este barrier in Hamburg-Cranz due to a technical defect. At the time of the accident, the ferry was on the way from the wharf in Blankenese to Neuenfelde. When the ship was about to berth, the 53-year-old master a technical malfunction in the rudder system, so that the ferry hit the pile wall of the Este barrier despite the use of the thruster. Neither the crew nor the four passengers were injured. The damage to the ferry was estimated to be several thousand Euros, the amount of damage to the sheet piling had not yet been fixed. The investigations of the water police were ongoing.
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