Tugs have taken a drifting heavy-lift ship in tow after it lost power off the Norwegian coast.

The Norwegian Coastal Administration (NCA) named the vessel as the 41,000-dwt Tide Carrier (built 1989).

Tide Carrier is the name on its AIS feed, but Eide Carrier is the name listed by the Equasis database.

It got into difficulty near Feistein lighthouse.

Five crew were evacuated from the ship, local media said, with one suffering a broken shoulder.

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