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Swanland sinking 'avoidable'

An accident report into the sinking of the Swanland found it was heavily overloaded when it sank. and the who incident could have been avoided. Six crew members died when the cargo vessel sank off the north Wales coast in November 2011.

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Report: Swanland sinking 'could have been avoided'

A report into the sinking of a cargo ship off the Lleyn peninsula with the loss of six lives has revealed the tragedy could have been avoided.

The Swanland sank in 2011 after suffering a "catastrophic structural failure" Accident investigators say it had been weaked by corrosion and hadn't been properly maintained.

The vessel had been sailing from a jetty at Llanddulas near Old Colwyn, as David Wood reports.

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