Golden Galleon ML162
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Forum Name: Where Are Those Boats Now
Forum Description: Tell everybody where those old boats are
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Printed Date: 26 March 2026 at 11:21pm
Topic: Golden Galleon ML162
Posted By: spacemutt
Subject: Golden Galleon ML162
Date Posted: 07 September 2010 at 12:21am
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I did a search on the forum to see if this had been mentioned, but I can't find any reference. Someone please save http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/Golden-Galleon.html - Golden Galleon! |
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Posted By: spacemutt
Date Posted: 07 September 2010 at 12:22am
Oh sod it!
Nothing left to save....  |
Despite
efforts to save her, she was deemed a potentional navigation
hazard and was scrapped a couple of months after the images below
were taken.Posted By: Whitelady
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 10:58pm
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Sorry Mr C... I have some pics of her somewhere being broken up at St Olaves... ------------- You don't own a boat, a boat owns you. |
Posted By: spacemutt
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 11:10pm
| What an absolute crying shame. I don't understand how someone can do that. Ok, it may not have been in great condition, but she was still floating on her how keel. Why couldn't they have given her to someone who would have saved her? |
Posted By: Whitelady
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 11:28pm
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£1000s of pounds of overdue broads tolls, fear of her breaking up on route to a boatyard for repair etc etc basically rubbish but, whats gone is gone ------------- You don't own a boat, a boat owns you. |
Posted By: spacemutt
Date Posted: 09 September 2010 at 11:35pm
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What a load of poppycock! ah well.... |
Posted By: clive
Date Posted: 11 September 2010 at 2:54pm
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she was rotten as a pear, she had been bodged up and planking was falling off!
the waterline was so tender you could have put your hand through in places! ------------- masbie something in the water. www.freewebs.com/masb32/ |
Posted By: spacemutt
Date Posted: 11 September 2010 at 3:02pm
Still worth saving. Well.. I think so. But then the Fairmiles are probably my favourite boat. 
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Posted By: Whitelady
Date Posted: 11 September 2010 at 9:45pm
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But it'd have still been cheaper to build a replica.
------------- You don't own a boat, a boat owns you. |
Posted By: spacemutt
Date Posted: 11 September 2010 at 10:06pm
Not the point. The replica didn't fight for King and country, smuggling agents into occupied France, or single handed chase down a U-Boat tyring to sink a packed troop ship. 
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Posted By: johnk
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 10:15am
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Hi Guys,
Yes, many ways a great pity but there are other B' about of course, given the forturne spent on some historic ships from public funds, but also of course we see private ones in the shape of MTB102 for example, and the B's I mentioned also restored with private funds, one as a houseboat but still very much looking the part was up for sale recently, and one running trips on the south west coast,
Johnk
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Posted By: spacemutt
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 11:35am
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Yes, I guess there are a few around. It's always good to hear of another one saved. I remember the big D that sat by the bridge in Shoreham. Every time I went to see my grandad it was there. Until one year it was gone. Gutted. As has been said so often here, once they're gone, they're gone.
But I am also realistic. I know how many tens, even hundreds of thousands there things cost to restore. And yes, it often is cheaper to build a new one. |
Posted By: johnk
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 6:49pm
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Ah, yes a D, bit of a thing for me the D, missed it myself,by the time I visited it was a bonfire, very poor condition I saw from TV pics, hole in the bow and flooded apparently at high water, to ankle level at any rate. But as the example of the culmination of the war time coastal forces boats, starting of course with MTB 102 which as I say always we still have thanks to the work of the trust. Even high and dry in a museum as a number of vessels I see abroad are, and a few here, be great to have at least one. Oh well, there it is, much to be said I know for supporting our existing vessels so we at least have them still. Johnk
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Posted By: johnk
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 6:51pm
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Oh, should make clear as above MTB 102 is in a charitable trust and not privately owned, sorry abou that, the B's are is what I meant.
Johnk
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Posted By: spacemutt
Date Posted: 13 September 2010 at 7:50pm
| http://www.boatshed.com/historic-devon-craft-for-sale-with-boatshed-plymouth-yacht-brokers-blog-3734.html - This one looks lovely, though it would be nice to see her back in original condition. |
Posted By: johnk
Date Posted: 14 September 2010 at 9:55am
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Yes, this is the one I was talking about, OK not in grey but a fantastic job done on her, can only hope she goes to a good home with someone with the money and time and interest to keep her up, perhaps even to sunnier climes who knows.
Johnk
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Posted By: jimmy p
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 11:40pm
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Had a mooch round WL4 a while back when tony was converting her. What a piece of kit! original apart from her engines & superbly maintained. Was there looking at rml535 but after working out how many linear metres of mahogany + tens of thousands of brass screws & copper rivets she needed, got a smaller boat. That said spacemutt, theres one over essex way in fair condition if you really want one(ml256 i think?). Looks like would sit in a tidal creek for years but wouldn't like to cross the channel in her without a slip & rebuild. Is the fairmile c still over at hayling island? ------------- A boat is a hole in the water surrounded by wood, into which one throws money |