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Twenty crew members of a fishing vessel were rescued April 27th after their ship sank off the southern coast of South Africa, according to a report by the nation's National Sea Rescue Institute.

The vessel, identified as the Cape Town-registered Starfish, sent a distress signal at 11:16 a.m. on Saturday. The fishermen next abandoned the sinking ship and boarded a liferaft.

The Northern Star, a bulk carrier, diverted its course to respond to the distress signal and rescued all of the ships 20 crew members.

The bulk carrier made its way to Port Elizabeth where the crewmen from the sunken fishing trawler were safely brought ashore early on Sunday.

All members of the crew, which included South African, Kenyan, Angolan and Namibian nationals, escaped without injury.

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