Ship Blocking Suez Canel Prompts Meme Fest On Social Media

It was the ship that launched a thousand memes. Social media users sharing viral images of a giant container vessel wedged into the banks of the Suez Canel in Egypt as they convert it into hilarious memes.

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The Ever Given first got stuck across the vital shipping route on Tuesday, with Egyptian authorities still desperately trying to shift the 59-meter (193-foot) wide and 400-meter (1,312-foot) longship.

Internet users were quick to point out the humor behind small tugboats and excavators trying to push and pull the Ever Given free of the canal’s banks.