Lego swept off cargo ship near Cornwall 17 years ago is found on a beach hundreds of miles away in Cumbria

Lego swept off cargo ship near Cornwall 17 years ago is found on a beach hundreds of miles away in Cumbria
Amanda Cashmore 29 January 2018

A piece of Lego swept off a cargo ship seventeen years ago in Cornwall has been found on a beach - hundreds of miles away in Cumbria.

The plant-shaped toy is thought to have been one of 4.8 million pieces lost when a container boat was struck by a freak wave off the Cornish coast.

The Tokio Express was en-route from Rotterdam to New York on February 13, 1997, when a wild wave struck it 20 miles west of Land's End, tilting it back and forth at such a sharp degree it lost 62 containers.

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