Salvage companies Ardent and Multraship have been appointed to aid Wagenborg Shipping to refloat a multipurpose ship that ran aground in Scottish waters on 17 July.

Representatives from Ardent will carry out an initial assessment on the 3,250-dwt Priscilla (built 2009) on 21 July, a statement by UK’s Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) said.

“Salvors have already commenced deploying equipment to the incident site,” the MCA said.