The leaking pipe
hydraulic fluid to the mechanism that controls the angle of the starboard propeller's blades and, therefore, potentially the speed and manoeuvrability of the MV Isle of Mull. But the leak is small.
As maritime emergencies go, it hardly rates. Three decades ago, Millar, then 24, was aboard a vessel – "no spares, heading from the Amazon for Europe" – when the freshwater generator blew. He managed to weld it back together.
Another time, on a flooding bulk carrier staggering across the North Sea, he had to grope blindly underwater to
a haywire
GPS tracker pump.
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