Shoreham houseboat owners evacuated due to high tide (From The Argus)
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Shoreham houseboat owners evacuated due to high tide
7:53am Thursday 18th October 2012 in News
Five houseboat owners were evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night because of high tides.
A 55 foot vessel based in Surry Boat Yard in Shoreham began listing to starboard due to the high tide and caused the gangway connecting four other boats to become destabilised.
The houseboat owners were led to safety at about 3am this morning by Shoreham firefighters and Sussex Police officers and spent the night in the nearby coastguard station at Humphreys Gap.
It is believed the boat’s owners, a couple in their 50s, had lived on the boat for the last six years.
Firefighters said half of the boat’s hull had filled with water.
Comments(10)
Telscombe Cliffy
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10:47am Thu 18 Oct 12
Whitehawkian
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11:02am Thu 18 Oct 12
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:Are they Ships then?
Hmmm, it's not a boat anymore is it?
I remember being told......
A Ship has to be big enough to carry Boat and Boat has to be small enough to be carried on a Ship.
HULKS ... THAT is the name I was looking for......
Old Ladys Gin
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1:34pm Thu 18 Oct 12
paul76
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1:46pm Thu 18 Oct 12
ShorehamBeachcomber
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3:40pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Knightly
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3:51pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Whitehawkian wrote:Beached Houseboats or Waterborne non Travelers
Telscombe Cliffy wrote:Are they Ships then?
Hmmm, it's not a boat anymore is it?
I remember being told......
A Ship has to be big enough to carry Boat and Boat has to be small enough to be carried on a Ship.
HULKS ... THAT is the name I was looking for......
Hove Actually
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4:54pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Having Garden sheds on them can't help either.
John Steed
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5:07pm Thu 18 Oct 12
i am surprised that having apparently lived afloatish for some 6 years they hadnt noticed the smelly mud gets covered up twice a day now and again rather well covered.
Chattel-in-Law
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8:59pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Hove Actually wrote:It wasn't the houseboats you drive past which got into difficulties, it was the ones in the Surry Boat Yard. The tide was much higher than forecast (rather like the winds twenty-five years ago!) which resulted in exceptional conditions.
I drive past these every day and was waiting for the day they started to sink, mind you I did think it would be the one on the end that someone has put 3 foot portholes in and not finished them off on the outside.
Having Garden sheds on them can't help either.
Whitehawkian says...
10:17am Thu 18 Oct 12