After 145 years as an icon of the British merchant marine, the City of Adelaide, the oldest surviving clipper ship in the world, is to be “disassembled” – bureaucratic doublespeak that means she will now be demolished.
Despite being ranked as one of Britain’s 10 most important historic vessels, City of Adelaide has spent the past 12 years high and dry on the banks of the River Clyde at Irvine, just south of Glasgow. Although the hull remains in good condition, the owners, the Scottish Maritime Museum, have failed in their repeated attempts to raise the £10 million needed for her restoration.
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Then, in February 2001 the financial dilemma forced the Scottish Maritime Museum to do something that no conservation body in Britain had ever done: it formally requested consent to demolish the ship.
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