MV Pallas

The ship ran aground on 29 October off the German island of Amrum, in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park.

At the time of the sinking, the ship was owned by the Italian company Bogazzi Servizi Naval and running under the flag of Bahamas.

Several attempts to get the ship under tow were unsuccessful, and it ran aground on 29 October off the German island of Amrum, in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park.

Around 200–300 tons of fuel oil were lost overboard, killing approximately 16,000 sea birds, predominantly common eiders.

[4] Not only the Greens-friendly environmental protection associations NABU and BUND suggested that he resignin the month after the incident, also the MP Adelheid Winking-Nikolay from his own parliamentary group, Der Spiegel wrote in 1999.