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Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« on: 21 January 2007, 21:47:13 »
Went round to my parents house earlier in South Devon, and we took a walk along the cliff top a couple of miles from their house to see how much damage this is going to do. It's not pretty, and its going to get worse. It is quite bizarre to watch containers floating along in the current towards Weymouth though.










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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #1 on: 21 January 2007, 21:52:26 »
Wow... amazing pics!  :y
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #2 on: 21 January 2007, 21:54:23 »
Brilliant Pictures Mate  :y

Sad circumstances though  :(
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #3 on: 21 January 2007, 21:55:52 »
Sssshhh, don't tell Tunnie - he'll be down there like a shot to see if anything useful has been washed up.  Rumour has it, he doesn't like paying....
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #4 on: 21 January 2007, 21:58:16 »
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Sssshhh, don't tell Tunnie - he'll be down there like a shot to see if anything useful has been washed up.  Rumour has it, he doesn't like paying....

 ;D Cant see him getting any of those boxes into his pocket though.... :-/
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #5 on: 21 January 2007, 21:59:02 »
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Sssshhh, don't tell Tunnie - he'll be down there like a shot to see if anything useful has been washed up.  Rumour has it, he doesn't like paying....

 ;D Cant see him getting any of those boxes into his pocket though.... :-/
Ah, but the contents...

...might be Senator parts!
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #6 on: 21 January 2007, 23:09:45 »
Quite shocking and those look like 40 foot containers as well.

THat's what happens when they fall off!
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #7 on: 21 January 2007, 23:25:48 »
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Sssshhh, don't tell Tunnie - he'll be down there like a shot to see if anything useful has been washed up.  Rumour has it, he doesn't like paying....

 ;D Cant see him getting any of those boxes into his pocket though.... :-/
Ah, but the contents...

...might be Senator parts!

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Sure one of those containers said GM on the side  :D

If i lived there i'd be sooooo tempted to go down and see whats there, never know Rolex might have had a years supply of watches on there, or GM sending over crate full of Omega parts  ;) :D

Joking aside, does look bad and amazing pics!

I only caught a bit of on the news, force9 gale cause it but then they ran it a-ground on purpose to stop it sinking.

The gale did it break the back of the ship or something i heard, because it ran a-ground before and had extensive repairs in Vietnam.

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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #8 on: 22 January 2007, 09:40:49 »
How on earth do you even start to think about how you might start to clean that lot up?
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #9 on: 22 January 2007, 10:53:57 »
I heard on the news that there are BMW motorbikes in some of the containers...10 bikes have gone missing so far.
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #10 on: 22 January 2007, 10:57:00 »
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I heard on the news that there are BMW motorbikes in some of the containers...10 bikes have gone missing so far.

 ;D ;D

Didn't BMW loose a whole ship load of cars once? When all the containers fell off and sank?
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #11 on: 22 January 2007, 11:21:51 »
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I heard on the news that there are BMW motorbikes in some of the containers...10 bikes have gone missing so far.

 ;D ;D

Didn't BMW loose a whole ship load of cars once? When all the containers fell off and sank?
Couldn't happen to a nicer company ;)

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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #12 on: 22 January 2007, 12:10:01 »
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I heard on the news that there are BMW motorbikes in some of the containers...10 bikes have gone missing so far.

 ;D ;D

Didn't BMW loose a whole ship load of cars once? When all the containers fell off and sank?

I think this was the first delivery of Volvo XC90 to the UK a couple of years ago...
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #13 on: 22 January 2007, 12:10:54 »
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I heard on the news that there are BMW motorbikes in some of the containers...10 bikes have gone missing so far.

 ;D ;D

Didn't BMW loose a whole ship load of cars once? When all the containers fell off and sank?

I think this was the first delivery of Volvo XC90 to the UK a couple of years ago...
Shame the next shipment made it through.... ;D
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Re: Ship wreck at Branscombe (pics)
« Reply #14 on: 22 January 2007, 13:25:53 »
That was the Tricolor in 2002....it was full of BMW's, Volvos and Saabs.....
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