Warning notices about washed up cargo
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The photograph on this page of Warning notices about washed up cargo by Robin Webster as part of the Geograph project.
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Warning notices about washed up cargo
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 20 Jan 2008
The "Ice Prince" was wrecked off Devon a few days earlier and lost its deck cargo of 2000 tonnes of timber. A lot of this ended up along the beaches of Sussex. Hence these notices: 'Merchant Shipping Act 1995 It is an offence to keep cargo. Police have been given power by the Receiver of Wreck. You may be arrested and a penalty of £2,500 imposed if you remove Cargo.' and 'Danger beach closed Keep out of the water, loose material floating in the sea'.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.827219
Longitude
-0.276956