Overview
- Two containers beached at Selsey in West Sussex, where coastguard teams, firefighters and police established a cordon and urged the public to stay away.
- HM Coastguard updated the total to 18 containers after initial reports of 15 and then 16, and it is coordinating with the vessel’s owners on recovery.
- Members of the public were told to report sightings and to declare any found wreck to the Receiver of Wreck rather than approach debris.
- Reported loads included bananas, plantain and avocados, with several containers empty.
- The Baltic Klipper remained at anchor off the Isle of Wight, and port operations saw knock-on delays including P&O Cruises’ Iona departing nearly a day late before leaving around 1pm Sunday.