Ship aground off Norfolk

[beneteau_305_553]

Car carrier is aground on the Haisbro' sands

http://www.mcga.gov.uk/c4mca/mcga-press-releases?id=AA3DA842AEB80490&m=1&y=2008

Beats timber flotsam off Devon (well maybe not 5000 tons)

 

[Spars]

Put your VHF on and keep us updated! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Pinnacle]

Naughty!!!!!!!

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[D3B]

Er

Zebrugge to Tees Port......

Aground off Cromer????

A little off course perhaps?

 

[EdWingfield]

I know those boys. Fingers crossed they stay safe.

Pity about the characters on here who find it humerous that sailors are at risk.

I'dve hoped that we had some sort of bond. Oh well.

 

[brianhumber]

Re: She also was aground in Finland 2002?

According to Google she was refloated in Jan 2002 having gone aground off Finland. Problems with ice as she was got free.

 

[Jezlyn]

She draws 5.01m - see AIS Liverpool http://www.aisliverpool.co.uk/showship.php?mmsi=233150000

 

[bumblefish]

So that is the magic of AIS, aground and making 3 kts, must be making a huge trench in the sandbank!

 

[Jezlyn]

Just imagine what speed she would be doing without all that friction!

 

[MrCramp]

She was expected to come off at 11am. Still there now. I wonder what's happening?

 

[lyc]

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She was expected to come off at 11am. Still there now. I wonder what's happening?

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She is now on her way again with some very red faces I would imagine!

 

[LymingtonPugwash]

When the flotsom starts flowing in, grab a 4 wheel drive for me and I'll pick it up when I'm next in the UK

 

[ozzyb]

"Er Zebrugge to Tees Port......

Aground off Cromer????

A little off course perhaps?"

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8 miles offshore between Cromer and Gt Yarmouth doesn't seem that far off course except for avoiding the sand bank!!!!

 

[Stork_III]

9 miles probably better?

 

[boomerangben]

I saw her yesterday rather adjacent to some pretty rough looking water and did wander what was going on. So now I know. I knew I should have taken my camera with me.

 

[roger]

Tristram Jones wrote about being aground on the Haisbro in the sailing ship Second Apprentice. He was a young ship's boy at the time and by his account absolutely petrified.