On 23/5/07 09:13, "sean neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be serious for a moment, I'm appalled too - our record in preserving > historic ships in this country is embarrassingly bad, compared to other > countries which were not so dependent on the sea, and I'm not sure the > inland waterways heritage is a lot safer.
A letter I saw in a newspaper (can't remember which one) said that in fact Cutty Sark isn't the only surviving tea clipper - but that the only other one (which seems to have been converted to Navy use at some time as it was later renamed to something beginning with 'HMS') was to be broken up having sunk at her moorings in Glasgow and no funding being available for restoration. Is this true? Sean - do you know anything about the other ship? Martin
