Luxury cars worth millions confirmed as among cargo of beached vehicle carrier

JAGUAR LAND Rover last night confirmed more than 1,000 of its vehicles are on the car carrier vessel stranded on a sandbank in the Solent.

Salvage workers yesterday boarded the 51,000-tonne Hoegh Osaka which was deliberately stranded on the Bramble Bank between Southampton and the Isle of Wight

The vessel began to list as it left the port, forcing the captain and pilot to take the emergency action of beaching it on the sandbank to prevent it turning over into the sea.