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Post by sweet soul on Jan 19, 2009 11:44:48 GMT
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Post by sweet soul on Jan 19, 2009 11:45:33 GMT
More than a thousand metric tonnes of timber is afloat off the Sussex coast after going overboard from a Russian-registered cargo ship.
Coastguards said today that 1,500 metric tonnes of wood was in the sea off the south-east coast of England. A spokesman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said that at 8.15am the ship Sinegorsk reported that it had lost the wood around 14 miles off the coast of Newhaven, East Sussex.
He said it was too early to say if or where the timber would be washed up on the coast.
Various estimates put the load of wood lost by the Ice Prince at between 2,000 and 5,000 metric tonnes.
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Post by radge on Jan 19, 2009 11:45:44 GMT
sorry sweet soul but....  is that interesting to you?  |
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Post by sweet soul on Jan 19, 2009 11:48:07 GMT
not really no, but it was a news headline on tv before i came out : )
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Post by sweet soul on Jan 19, 2009 11:48:28 GMT
LOl radge
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Post by sweet soul on Jan 19, 2009 11:49:40 GMT
Hey Jimlad, wheres me timber gone ? : )
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Post by radge on Jan 19, 2009 11:53:32 GMT
ahahahaha ok i just had to check |
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Post by radge on Jan 19, 2009 11:54:07 GMT
would be ironic if a pile of this wood got washed up on the island of lesbos dont ya think?
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 19, 2009 11:58:48 GMT
The Russian sailor responsible for losing this Timber has been made to Walk the Plank.
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Post by radge on Jan 19, 2009 11:59:13 GMT
oh dear... |
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Post by sweet soul on Jan 19, 2009 12:01:32 GMT
hehe
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Post by reverend on Jan 19, 2009 12:34:43 GMT
thick as 12000 short planks that lot!
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Post by fastkat on Jan 19, 2009 12:38:28 GMT
Shame it wasn't a consignment of Vodka!
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Post by radge on Jan 19, 2009 12:45:11 GMT
or rum, or whisky, or vibrators or lubricant, or blow up dolls or...ok i'll stop now
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Post by Libby on Jan 19, 2009 13:53:04 GMT
Remember when a tanker ran aground and lost it's cargo, motorbikes were washed ashore. People were cracking open wooden cases finding brand new undamaged motorbikes - then there was a sudden police presence as other valuable cargo came ashore!
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Post by Foxy1 on Jan 20, 2009 11:21:19 GMT
 that's a lot of timber! I think it counts a 'flotsam' so it's anyones. The slick of wood is floating in the English Channel in the direction of Kent |
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Post by sweet soul on Jan 20, 2009 11:24:08 GMT
wood u believe it! : )
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Post by radge on Jan 20, 2009 11:27:06 GMT
oh no.... |
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Post by Beachcomber on Jan 20, 2009 11:31:39 GMT
There's gonna be a hell of a lot of new garden sheds, garages, garden decking and fences built in Kent in time for summer.
Any jobbing joiners or capenters will be having a boom time this year.
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Post by sweet soul on Jan 20, 2009 11:33:25 GMT
yea, tho it does go warped when it gets wet?
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