---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matt Beamish <[email protected]> Date: 2009/3/21 Subject: FW: Sunken boat
Here are some pictures of a very sorry 27’ clinker built whaleboat/lifeboat in a back water of the Soar at Thurmaston, known as the “Whaler”. It is of around 6’ beam. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/2boats/whaleboat/whaleboatbow.jpg http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/2boats/whaleboat/whaleboatstern.jpg http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/2boats/whaleboat/whaleboatsm.jpg The boat was bought from Banbury in the early 1990s, and had been used by possibly Sea Cadets. The boat is believed to be of mahogany, and to have been built by Walkers, for the British Admiralty in 1944 but I have no way of corroborating this. Can anyone confirm that Walkers range included this sort of boat? The upper planks are very brittle (recent damage can be seen on the upper planks on the port side), and the boat was leaking badly before sinking several years ago. The boat is very imminently to be broken up by a BW crane boat alongside. Has anyone got any further ideas on the provenance of this boat, and whether it has any rarity? Clearly it has some heritage value but this has to be balanced against it’s poor condition. Good information is needed on which a sensible decision can be based. Please forward to any group as applicable. Thanks Matt ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
