Helsinki - A ferry with passengers and crew stranded on board for 20 hours was finally towed to port after running aground early yesterday in heavy weather in an archipelago in the Baltic Sea. Early reports spoke of initial panic among some passengers and a leak in the ferry's double hull, but a coastguard official said the situation was under control and no one was injured.
Operators of the Viking Line ship Isabella, travelling from Finland's west coast city of Turku to Stockholm, decided not to evacuate the 818 passengers and crew, and instead ordered the vessel to be towed to the nearby Aland Islands' Langnas harbour.
