Post by Administrator on Jun 16, 2019 14:44:18 GMT
Falls of Clyde is languishing in Honolulu harbour
Time is running out for a historic Clyde-built windjammer trapped in Honolulu Harbour. The Falls of Clyde was built in Port Glasgow in 1878 but is now languishing abroad and being stripped of supplies with fears she is facing dismantlement. Sandra Dick reports.
She rests in her berth within the calm waters of Honolulu harbour, her red, white and blue striped hull showing signs of her grand age under the bright Hawaiian sun, her once billowing sails long gone.
As if to add to her sad air, 19th-century windjammer, Falls of Clyde, is overshadowed by a glossy neighbour; bedecked with flags and with the option for diners to spend $200 per head at captain’s table for an evening, the glitzy Star of Honolulu could scarcely be a less sympathetic companion.
But what the faded Clyde-built workhorse of the seas lacks in polish and pizazz, she makes up for in history and heritage as the last iron-hulled four-masted sailing ship of her kind.
Sadly, however, a decade of wrangling and shattered dreams has brought the Port Glasgow-built ship to her knees.
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Time is running out for a historic Clyde-built windjammer trapped in Honolulu Harbour. The Falls of Clyde was built in Port Glasgow in 1878 but is now languishing abroad and being stripped of supplies with fears she is facing dismantlement. Sandra Dick reports.
She rests in her berth within the calm waters of Honolulu harbour, her red, white and blue striped hull showing signs of her grand age under the bright Hawaiian sun, her once billowing sails long gone.
As if to add to her sad air, 19th-century windjammer, Falls of Clyde, is overshadowed by a glossy neighbour; bedecked with flags and with the option for diners to spend $200 per head at captain’s table for an evening, the glitzy Star of Honolulu could scarcely be a less sympathetic companion.
But what the faded Clyde-built workhorse of the seas lacks in polish and pizazz, she makes up for in history and heritage as the last iron-hulled four-masted sailing ship of her kind.
Sadly, however, a decade of wrangling and shattered dreams has brought the Port Glasgow-built ship to her knees.
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