The defendant salvors provided salvage services to the vessel Voutakos and her cargo (“the appellants”) in late October 2006 on Lloyd’s Standard Form of Salvage Agreement 2000. The vessel had suffered a main engine breakdown in the South Western approaches to the English Channel in the course of a voyage from Puerto Prodoco, Columbia to Rotterdam with 174,496 tons of coal. A salvage agreement was entered into very quickly and steps were taken by the salvors to identify a suitable tug to take the vessel in tow. In due course the salvors chartered in an ocean going tug from Fairmount Marine, and when the wind increased as the flotilla approached the Dover Straits, they hired a tug from URS to act as a steering vessel for the casualty. The tow covered some 560 miles.