131 year old iron hulled ship Wavertree being restored

[captainbob]

In the 131 years since the iron-hulled cargo ship Wavertree was built, it has been tossed and tattered — its main mast ripped away in a hurricane, and its role demoted to sand barge.  Now it’s being restored.  Read about it here.

 

Bob

[jud]

That photo inside the hull looks a lot like the inside of the hull of the Star of India the first time I was allowed in there, collision bulkhead was in place and the rest empty except for the Iron fresh water tank hanging from the overhead. The Star had a lot more rust and trash in there then, which was later cleaned out. My experience being in compartmentalized ships at that time, the open hull seemed huge as did the inner hull of a lumber schooner I was aboard in San Francisco. I like to see these of vessels restored, those with first hand memory's of the old folks talking about these ships are now gone, the only thing left of an era are the bones and some items like the old cheese safe we have in the family that arrived on the West coast aboard a Bark that had went around the Horn, it still smells of cheese.

jud

[Mirabell61]

thanks for sharing that information Bob,

 

i do hope that the workers will do a splended job on Wavertree`s restoration on that old iron hulled cargo sail ship.

Also I`m very pleased that the Peking will be brought home to Hamburg instead of being scrapped, she also will be restorated and moored at the new  planed Hamburg Harbour Museum...

 

Nils

[mtaylor]

JerseyCityFrankie is covering this here also:  http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/11248-full-rigged-ship-wavertree/   He's involved iwth her as a volunteer.