A last ditch bid to save an historic clipper from being broken up, will be made later.
The Carrick, which pre-dates the Cutty Sark, was built at Sunderland in 1864 and is now berthed at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine, Ayrshire.
North Ayrshire Council granted provisional permission for the ship to be demolished in February as it would cost almost £20m to restore it.
About 100 campaigners from Sunderland will call for the ship to be returned.
Originally named The City of Adelaide, the ship was built to carry people emigrating to southern Australia. It has been rotting away on the quayside in Irvine since 1992 because of a lack of funding to restore it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6908814.stm
2007-07-21 00:00:21 · 12 answers · asked by Wildamberhoney 6 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Idnt it hilarious how morons assume thry know your opinion on the matter when they don't.
Keep it via fundraising.
2007-07-21 04:37:41 · answer #1 · answered by Amidalek 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am probably the wrong one to answer this question, hwever, I will try
I have great trouble seeing the value in old things.
It irriitates me when I see or hear people have paid thousands or even millions for antiques.
What is there present day purpose, a fraction of the cost paid would buy a modern day equivalent which would work better, look better and probably last longer.
People in THIS country, including children are starving, how can we justify spending £20m on an old wreck.
No matter what the history of it is (I include the Cutty Sark in this), it has had it's day, it will never be used again for it's worth and the cash would be far better spent elsewhere.
So sorry to say, once something has outlived it's usefulness, once it is starting to cost money to keep in existence, then it is time it was disoposed of.
2007-07-21 00:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It should absolutely be saved.
One of the things that makes being a human being so wonderful is that we can relate to the past. Try standing on the ship holding on to one of the (now) rotting timbers and you can feel the connection with someone and something that changed peoples lives so long ago.
As to tax payers paying for it. Why not? Does anyone really begrudge paying less than 30p towrds it?
2007-07-21 21:11:24 · answer #3 · answered by Christine H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a million. confident. Your heart and innovations are patently no longer in it in case you have been at it for tremendously much 4 years and nonetheless have not got your affiliate's degree. 2. you're unlikely to get 8 hour workdays and a pair of days off (exceedingly the weekend) on a cruise deliver. rather, without journey, you will no longer get a activity there besides. human beings pay precise greenback for rub down on a cruise deliver and assume an skilled therapist. in case you already had the certificates for rub down treatment, foodstuff, or wellbeing, you will have the capacity to get a activity at a spa or something, yet you would be low guy on the totem pole and would get the crap shifts that folk who've been there for a mutually as do no longer choose. i think of you ought to attain that at your age, without college degree and no journey, in a recession, you're unlikely to get what you opt for. you are going to ought to settle for what you will hit upon, a minimal of for now.
2017-01-21 11:51:26 · answer #4 · answered by ribeiro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even thou it is old it Can hold interesting discovery's i say restore it if it is that old imagine how much it would be worth after you restore it probably twice as much money also if you keep it, tourism earn a bit from that and you might find something, like a famous pirates name maybe.
Keep the ship!
2007-07-21 00:17:22 · answer #5 · answered by Levotion 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Saved
2007-07-21 00:51:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Unless an 11th hour group will come up with the money, then it should be destroyed. It sat as a reliquary for all those years with no one caring.
2007-07-21 00:05:17 · answer #7 · answered by ObscureB 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
20 Million, you could buy a New One For That.
2007-07-21 00:08:19 · answer #8 · answered by Paul T 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you and other interested parties can raise the money privately then do so but don't ask the taxpayer, they've more important things to spend their money on
2007-07-21 01:32:22 · answer #9 · answered by Barrie G 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Find the money,Not taxpayers.
2007-07-21 00:06:18 · answer #10 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋