* Tanker carrying 6,000 tonne of solvent
* French authorities say cargo does not appear to be leaking
* Tanker being towed to Brest -- port authority
(Adds details, amends second ship's name)
RENNES, France, Oct 8 (Reuters) - A chemicals tanker loaded with 6,000 tonnes of solvent ran into trouble after a collision off the coast of France on Friday but authorities said its crew was rescued and its cargo did not seem to be leaking.
Rescuers took 13 crew members of the YM Uranus, a vessel sailing under a Maltese flag, to safety by helicopter, a port authority spokesman said, after it apparently hit another ship south of the island of Ouessant off France's northwest coast.
Brest's port authority said a navy tugboat had managed to hook up to the tanker and begin towing it towards Brest. The vessel would not arrive in Brest before Friday night.
"No pollution has so far been observed," the port authority added in a statement.
Patrick Adamson, a spokesman for V Ships which manages the 120-metre-long YM Uranus, told Reuters the vessel had been in a collision with the 179,000 dead-weight tonne bulk carrier Hanjin Rizhao.
"It is afloat, not drifting," he said. "We don't know the damage to the other vessel."
Adamson said the collision had created a "breach in the hull" that led to "water ingress".
"We understand the water ingress has now stopped. There's no pollution at the moment."
The YM Uranus, built in 2008, was sailing from Porto Marghera in Italy to Amsterdam and was around 50 nautical miles, or 100 kilometres, south west of Ouessant when it got into difficulties.
The Hanjin Rizhao anchored off of Ouessant after the incident, before resuming its journey from Las Palmas to Rotterdam.
Every day around 150 ships sailing off the coast of Finistere use the two shipping lanes put in place to regulate marine traffic around Ouessant.
(Reporting by Pierre-Henri Allain in France, Avril Ormsby in London, Writing by Brian Love; Editing by Noah Barkin)
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