world news - 02.02.2009
Timber from Russian ship washes up on UK shores
Piles of wooden planks cluttered beaches in southern England Thursday. Beach-goers walked amid chaotic clusters of sawn timber in Ramsgate, about Heavy waters washed the timber from the deck of the freighter Monday
morning. The ship was on its way to Alexandria, Egypt, when it was
caught in foul weather. The vessel is currently docked in the port city
of Southampton. Authorities say more than a thousand tons of timber knocked off the
deck of a Russian cargo ship are washing up on the English coast.
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