The 3,015-dwt Sea Breeze (built 1989), which had six people aboard, began taking on water 12 miles east of the Lizard.
Theship has been towed to the sheltered waters of St Austell Bay in Cornwall by the salvage tug Vortex.
Divers will be sent in toinspect the ship before a temporary magnetic repair patch can befitted, Falmouth Coastguard said.
Earlier in the day local lifeboats and a rescue helicopter attemptedto pump water out of Barbados-flagged vessel using its own pumps.
“We
