The Viking Sky, with 1,373 passengers and crew on board, sent out a mayday signal on Saturday as it drifted toward land in the Norwegian Sea. The airlift of passengers, many of them elderly, from the Viking Cruises ship by helicopter was halted on Sunday morning as two tugboats started steering the vessel toward the nearest port. Founder and chairman of Viking Cruises, Norwegian billionaire Torstein Hagen, said he hoped the vessel would arrive at the port of Molde on Norway’s west coast by Sunday afternoon. Some 20 injured passengers had been taken to hospital, Viking Cruises said, while others had only minor injuries. Built in 2017, the Viking Sky is 227 meters long (745 feet) and 29 meters wide, the Viking Ocean Cruises website said.

Source: Huffington Post March 24, 2019 09:39 UTC