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Wood pile beside a
Worthing cycleway of the Ice Prince
Timber from the ship Ice Prince in
Seaford Bay
The MV Ice Prince was a 328-foot Greek-registered cargo ship which sank in the English Channel on 15 January 2008 at 12:45am, spilling 2,516 tonnes of timber, around 423 tonnes of intermediate fuel oil and 123 tonnes of marine diesel oil. [1] [2] [3] Twenty crew members were rescued by HM Coastguard helicopter and Brixham lifeboat. [4]
Timber from the cargo washed ashore along the south coast of England. Beaches along the south coast of England were closed to prevent looters taking away washed-up timber. [5]
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