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Currently the ship is over 200 miles south-west of the Seychelles and about 20 miles from Alphonse Island, are ongoing checks on the state of the engine room to be able to restart the equipment necessary to reactivate the functionality of ship.
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To power the thrusters and drilling equipment, the ship generates 37 megawatts of power, enough for a city of 35, 000.
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From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones.
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Almost 100 shipping containers packed with gunpowder and other military equipment, seized from a ship bound from Iran to Syria in breach of a UN embargo in 2009, had been piled up at a naval base for more than two years.
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As the ship sank in just 20 minutes, it took with it many documents and equipment which were of "importance to the security of the United Kingdom", said Clive Gale.
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With as much food, water and navigational equipment as could be snatched up in the brief time it took for the ship to sink, the crew of 20 abandoned the Essex in three light open boats.
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