Channel danger as hundreds of tonnes of timber washed overboard

By The Newsroom
Published 19th Jan 2009, 11:52 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 20:14 BST
Hundreds of tonnes of sawn timber are adrift in the English Channel and heading for the Sussex coast after being washed from the deck of a ship this morning.

Around 8.15 this morning Dover Coastguard were alerted to the loss of 1,500 metric tonnes of sawn timber from the deck of the 1991-built, 137-metre Russian vessel Sinegorsk, 14 nautical miles south of Newhaven.

The vessel was heading to Alexandria in Egypt from Oskarshamn in Russia.

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