Canadian navy ship called to assist burning cargo vessel in mid-Atlantic

A Canadian navy frigate was watching over a Panamanian-flagged merchant ship that was without power and adrift in the North Atlantic late Thursday following an engine fire.

Cmdr. Alex Grant of HMCS Toronto said his vessel arrived at the scene about 1,900 kilometres east of Cape Cod after receiving the merchant ship’s location from an Aurora long-range patrol aircraft based at Greenwood, N.S.