Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeJust a day after the Suez Canal ship was finally freed, an 80-metre-long vessel found itself in a spot of bother in Littlehampton Harbour. The ship, named Elise, managed to get stuck after slipping its moorings and drifting out into the river. Elise lodged herself into a diagonal position across the waterway, mirroring the skyscraper-sized Ever Given's predicament just a day after it was freed. However, instead of the week-long operation needed to release the container ship in Egypt, workers were able to free the Elise the same afternoon. (Image: Suez CANAL/AFP via Getty Images)The section of the River Arun was briefly closed at high tide to allow room for the manouevre.

Source: Daily Mirror March 30, 2021 17:26 UTC