Vessel threatened to run aground on first voyage after three years

The "Baby Leeyn" ex "Jana" was disabled and adrift south of St. John’s with 11 crew members on board, including eight Ukrainians and three Russians in the morning of Nov 26, 2017. The tug "Beverly M" was able to attach a towing wire to the ship around 6:30 p.m. one mile off the rocks at the Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve. There were nortthern winds on scene with gusts of 60 km/h, the waves were topping six metres. After the towline was parted due to poor weather conditions, a second tug contracted by the Canadian Coast Guard, the "Placentia Hope", managed to secure the freighter which could be anchored in 20 metres water depth about 2,6 kilometres from land west of the Cape. While there was no cargo onboard the"Baby Leeyn", it was carrying 250 tonnes of heavy propulsion fuel and 35 tonnes of marine diesel. An environmental response team and equipment were currently in St. Brides, where they were establishing a staging area as a precautionary measure. The ship had beeb tied up in Argentia in September 2014 after running into engine troubles offshore.´The ship's owners refused to pay the crew, and many stayed in the province to fix the ship. The ship's original captain died in Placentia in fall 2017. It was unclear how many of the crew from 2014 were still on board when the vessek left on Nov 25, when, after three years, she set sail for Romania. Hoiwver, she made it only 12 kilometres offshore before experiencing engine troubles again. While adrift, the ship's crew continued efforts to fix the engines. The Coast Guard told them to draw up an emergency response plan, which resulted in the crew calling for a tug.