Belfast or Scrapyard for historic ship.

[eliabrith]

26 days to go until the SS Nomadic is auctioned and either returned home to Belfast assuming the £170,000 reserve can be raised or scraped and the last afloat vessel of the White Star Line is melted down and lost to all.

This is the ship that ferried first and second class passengers out to the Titanic and Olympic as many, many other liners until 1968 when she was first sold as scrap. She was also used as a war time troop transport by the British after she was removed from Cherbourg as the Germans invaded in July 1940.

Comments

[bob-99.livejournal.com]

Now I know it's a part of history but is it really worth saving??? Don't get me wrong here but it's so old....will it survive the trip back home???
Don't say I don't care about stuff...it's my job to say it...

[eliabrith]

Yes Gavin it is worth saving it is the last direct link to the Titanic, Belfast is building the new Titanic quarter and so far the only link to the ship and her history is the bloody name and the fact that it will be built on the shipyard destroying the slipways.
And yes she's old but she is only 95 (Victory is 300) and has been looked after until 2000. So she's only had 5 years of being left to fate, the Titanic has been rotting underwater for 93 years and apart from the intial damage from the sinking still has an uncompromised hull so a ship that has had 5 years of disuse shouldn't have any problems.