Sadly I have seen a photograph of the ship in the latter part of the week - it is well beyond the point of no return as the scrap dealer has wasted no time in despatching her.
As someone who has been interested in transport almost all my life one must ask why the Wincham Preservation Society acted so hastily. Usually when such groups have difficulties a local / national appearl follows often featured in mainstream and specialist press.
Nothing of the sort happened. She was a functioning vessel on April 2, 2009 when she sailed to Bromborough for what was believed to be a routine survey
and now less than a month later she is a pile of scrap.
The museums obviously are partly to blame - they can find millions to debase the Maritime Museum and reduce the maritime coverage in favour of slavery - which could have been housed in the William Brown Street complex.
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Then they get funding for the Museum of Liverpool [Flemings Folly] Life yet they can't find a few thousand (not millions!) to save an attractive little ship which has graced our waterfront for the last 25 years or so.
Shame on them and shame on the WPS as well.
John
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