Wood pile beside a Worthing cycleway of the Ice Prince 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] 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]
Timber from the ship Ice Prince in Seaford Bay
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Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in 2008
Shipwrecks Other incidents
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