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National Historic Ships
The Cambria joins the “National Historic Ships” register. You can read all about this on their website
http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/pages/about-us.html
They say “National Historic Ships, with its governing Advisory Committee, was established in 2006 as a non-departmental public body reporting to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport with a specific remit to advise the Secretary of State and other public bodies on ship preservation and funding priorities.
It is the successor to the National Historic Ships Committee, which emerged from a seminar held in 1991 to discuss the problems facing the preservation of historic ships and vessels in the UK and the evident neglect of this important part of our heritage.
Strong support was expressed for the creation of a co-coordinating body which could provide an overview of all aspects of historic ship preservation and the Committee was formally launched on 15 July 1992 by Lord Lewin, then Chairman of Trustees of the National Maritime Museum”
It’s quite a nice website and you can nip around in it searching the register to see who’s in and who’s not. I had already known that Greta was in, having seen the flag flying from her rigging and asked Steve Norris – in his case it’s due to his association with Dunkirk, but we’re in good company. Plenty of barges are on the list – Raybel, Decima and Mirosa I found quickly but there are plenty more.
In our case the flag flies temporarily from an improvised flagpole – actually a boat hook which came to us from Tony Farnham – how’s that for recycling?
