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Post by JohnV on May 12, 2016 11:37:13 GMT
No not that one .......... The original one (They were persuaded to give up that name when the liner Queen Mary was launched and became Queen Mary II until it's demise) Originally a Clyde pleasure steamer then for many years a restaurant on the Embankment. She has been sitting in Tilbury Docks for the last 5 or 6 years as a derelict. Attachments:
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Post by kris on May 12, 2016 11:40:42 GMT
Whats happening to it in Glasgow?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 12:07:05 GMT
Whats happening to it in Glasgow? Housing Asylum Seekers.Preservation Society I would think and hopefully restored with English Money. |
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 12:09:15 GMT
No not that one .......... The original one (They were persuaded to give up that name when the liner Queen Mary was launched and became Queen Mary II until it's demise) Originally a Clyde pleasure steamer then for many years a restaurant on the Embankment. She has been sitting in Tilbury Docks for the last 5 or 6 years as a derelict. Beautiful pictures John,I wonder if she was a sister ship of the WAVERLEY? What a great Maritime nation we were back in the days of the Empire,yeah I believe she was a sister ship. |
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Post by bills on May 12, 2016 13:27:46 GMT
I dinna think so - nae paddles.
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Post by JohnV on May 12, 2016 16:09:00 GMT
sorry for delay in answering Kris, I'm still having major grief with internet connections here.
The Glasgow based trust that has bought her and is having her towed back to Glasgow would dearly love to put her back in commission as a pleasure steamer on the Clyde but they are short by about 10 million for that.
They are having the work done on the hull that is needed (their surveys reckon 7 to 10 plates need replacing) and they are going to restore her as a floating conference centre and exhibition hall. (I think with their eye on the possibility if that is all successful they might be able to raise the rest to totally restore her.)
As far as I am aware it is almost all private money (mostly Glasgow and area) the chap I was talking to reckoned that when people down here were talking about how hard it was to get money from English governments they should try getting anything out of the Scots parliament.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 16:23:05 GMT
I dinna think so - nae paddles. Sister ship in the sense they were both operated by Cal Mac at the same time. |
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Post by kris on May 12, 2016 17:41:36 GMT
Thanks for the replies, it's good that it's not getting left to rot. John what network are you on, you seem to have problems a lot. Might be worth investigating other networks.
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