Warship Preservation (Formerly HMS Plymouth - Urgent Campaign)

Well there's a report in our local paper, with a photo, saying she is on her way to Turkey. A great shame.

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/PIC...way-scrapped/story-22787599-detail/story.html

 

An arrest can be issued if the vessel is outside of territorial waters I believe

 

A video from Hemerdon's link.

 

Amber 11 no longer showing on Ship AIS.... Last reported off Gt Orme at 12:30 toady...

Marine Traffic shows north of Anglesey at 17:30

 

If the ship belonged to a trust & that trust fails, does the ship not have to be passed to another trust ?

Bob.

 

If the "trust" is a registered charity then I believe the assets can only be disposed of to another registered charity. Ray.

 

Yes, legally assets of a charity can only be disposed of by being transferred to another charity with similar objectives.

Current status, as far as I am aware, is that the Trust's ownership of HMS Plymouth has been recognised, but there is still some legal wrangling being done in court over the arrest warrant.

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Ply...HMS-Plymouth/story-22794247-detail/story.html

 

Get UKIPs leader on board too, as it is an important ship to save, too many have been cut up, and effectively a floating museum,which could become a tourist attraction,if others could be saved too and all brought together in one place.
Remember going on this ship at Portsmouth navy days in the late 70s early 80s, with HMS Bulwark,Invincible which was brand new.

 

Farage is all over it, apparently

 

Why ? There's no beer left in the Officers Mess.

Bob.

 

Current position of Amber 11.
http://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9425423

I guess to get to her destination she has to pass Gib.

 

I think it is fair to say the last minute legal action has come to nothing - the old girl isn't coming back from where she is now!

I suppose the main aim now is to cost Peel Holdings at least as much as the scrap proceeds they plan to pocket from a destroying another part of the UK's maritime history by seizing a ship more or less given to a Charity by the Royal Navy.

Steven

 

if theres ongoing court action, can Peel legally scrap her?
Personally, speaking, nationally and locally they should be exposed as what they really are, asset strippers, they have a track record of saying one thing and then doing something else, look at what happened with Manxman, they let her decay to the point where she was beyond saying, then cashed in on selling momentos of her, and the proceeds from scapping her. if they are not the legal owners, then surely what they have done is theft

 

HMS Plymouth is held up off Turkish waters.

See. http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/HMS...-legal-talks/story-22897500-detail/story.html

 

Peel's only involvement with the fate of 'Manxman' was to deny her a berth on the Mersey.
What they are guilty of is to let the last surviving tank landing craft from D-Day sink in Birkenhead docks & then just leaving her to rot.

Bob.

 

I'm assuming Peel seized the vessel, as the charitable trust that owned it failed to quit when given notice and/or couldn't pay any outstanding berthing charges?

 

Tragically HMS Plymouth is no more. Seems Peel Holdings stipulated that the ship must be broken up upon arrival and no third party could have access. Talk about stitch up.

http://plymouthhistoryforum.forumotion.co.uk/t51-final-update-hms-plymouth-trust