A ferry carrying 105 people from Ireland to France broke down off England on Sunday and narrowly missed drifting into rocks, the UK Coastguard said. "It was drifting very close to Wolf Rock. If it had hit, it would have been a bit of a disaster," Alan Loveday of Falmouth Coastguard in southern England told Reuters. The 16,776-tonne Diplomat lost both engines shortly before dawn due to problems with its cooling system as it approached the English Channel on its regular route from Rosslare, Ireland, to Cherbourg, France. A lifeboat and two tugboats were dispatched from England in high winds, but the vessel's crew resolved the mechanical problems alone, Loveday said. The ship, with 72 passengers and 33 crew, was completing its journey to Cherbourg.
