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Fortunately for us, it is a new hull which was being towed from Turkey to Rotterdam in Holland to be fitted out. It is therefore fairly inert.
Unfortunately for them, they lost the tow in a force 10 gale and it was blown onto our coast. As there was no-one on board and no pollution risk, the Coastguard refused to launch a helicopter to re-establish the tow.
We have some of the largest tides in the world here, over 10 metres, and it came ashore on one of the highest of the year, increase by the onshore wind and waves. The ship only had 200 tonnes of water as ballast so was floating high. It seems like it could be here for quite some time.
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Andy
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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I
would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather
choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree
of independence still available under present circumstances.
-- Albert Einstein, The Reporter, November 18 1954
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