Massive ship Ever Given hit small ferry in Germany in 2019 mishap

The colossal container ship that was finally freed Monday after running aground in the Suez Canal also struck a small ferry in Germany two years ago, according to a report.

A criminal probe was launched after the 1,300-foot-long Ever Given struck the 75-foot Finkenwerder, a pleasure ferry that was moored along the Elbe River in a suburb of Hamburg on Feb. 9, 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported. The 200,000-ton ship — which had stopped in Hamburg on its way from China to Rotterdam — mangled the much smaller vessel and came close to pulling a pontoon it was moored to free of the shore, according to the paper.No passengers were aboard the ferry, but its captain was slightly hurt in the maritime mishap, according to Liddy Oechtering, a spokeswoman for the Hamburg Public Prosecutor’s Office.