 Heavy seas broke plexiglass windows on the upper decks of a ferry travelling between Norway and Belgium.In Rotterdam the freighter "Nopalsel" 19,000 GRT broke free from its moorings, to prevent it from crashing into the port's main bridge twelve trucks were employed to pull the ship with steel cables.The ship "Stardust" was blown aground at 's-Gravenzande, later to be demolished "in situ" after refloatation did not succeed.