Two tugs spent the weekend desperately trying to keep an elderly steam-turbine powered chemical tanker from running aground on the coast of Malta.

On Monday they managed to tow the vessel to safety.

The 35,500-dwt Chem P (built 1968, ex Chemical Pioneer) lost power on Saturday after getting caught in a storm while en route to the Maltese port of Marsaxlokk from the Spanish port of Algeciras.