A compensation claim has been launched by six passengers who were injured in a "shocking ordeal" when a ferry ran aground in Orkney.
The incident in July of this year left passengers with an array of injures including fractures, sprains and soft tissue damage as one person was also taken to hospital with a fractured shoulder. Law firm Digby Brown said "dozens more are feared to have suffered injuries" after the Pentland Ferries vessel Alfred grounded on the Isle of Swona.
A total of 45 of the 84 passengers, who included holidaymakers, were evacuated by lifeboat before the 85m-long catamaran was re-floated. The incident happened around 2pm on July 5 during a crossing between Gills Bay, near John O'Groats in Caithness, and St Margaret's Hope on South Ronaldsay in Orkney.
