WORLD IN BRIEF : CANADA : 2 Cargo Ships Sink; 39 Seamen Missing
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Search vessels struggled through a savage storm in the Gulf of St. Lawrence but found none of the 39 seamen missing since two cargo ships sank in raging seas. The 23 crew members of the Vanuatu-registered Capitaine Torres abandoned ship 40 miles north of Cape Breton after sending a distress call saying their cargo of containers had shifted. Two life rafts and a lifeboat, all empty, were found by coast guard cutters. Nothing has been seen of the second ship, the Panamanian-registered Joanna B, carrying a cargo of steel ingots and a crew of 16, which had radioed that it was foundering about 150 miles northeast of Prince Edward Island.
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