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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The TSS Duke of Lancaster is a railway steamer passenger ship that operated from 1956 to 1979, and is currently beached near Mostyn Docks, on the River Dee, north-east Wales.
Although not accessible to the public this drone footage shows some of her current, sad, state.
She is beautiful. Allowing her to deteriorate like this is criminal. She should be scuttled with dignity and respect.
When i was a Youngster.. Perhaps the Early eighties or late seventies. I'm sure we went to this ship for a day. I seem to remember watching watership down in the Theatre.. I know this ship. I stood at the front and touched it as a Young child. I can remember that... Living in Canada now for over 30 years.. Amazing!
Amazingly I watched watership down in the ships theatre in the early 1980’s.
Beautiful ship - I was on her once sailing from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire in the late 1970s. I was only 11 at the time and I seem to remember a lot wood panelling and the ship divided into first and second class.
Her good looks are still there. Wonderful lines. Thanks for posting.
She is gracefully returning to nature.
The ship is looking a lot better these days - since the daub was painted over. Friend of mine drives the school bus passed there every day. Said it was in serious decline and never got any better. Hope others see your film and push for change.
At least its not covered in graffiti anymore, that's a blessing in itself.
This ship has a history locally and there is no grant either government or public to keep the ship preserved?
It did become knowledge not so long ago that network/british rail had unlawfully restricted access to it, so nothing could be done about its condition. Such a shame.
Beautiful ship how many times help the humans for traveling and working the people on this ship the older years many Islands his don't everyday for traveling how many die because no community a hope better luck from scraping this amazing ship please forgive my English not so good
Wow! I'm from the US and I know we can't save every ship, but it does have great lines and making it into a hotel seams like it would be cool if only you had it booked all the time so it pays for itself. Nice ship for sure.
Turning old ships into anything other that scrap metal has an almost universal habit of being financially unviable unfortunately. It's mostly the "if only you had it booked all the time" problem but as often as not they are just too damned expensive compared to bricks and mortar so they can't compete.
There was an old paddle steamer near me that had various incarnations as a pub / nightclub and every time the business failed, usually very rapidly, it got sold on to somebody even less likely to be able to pay for maintenance, "mooring" fees and so on. It ended up sunk in a dock with a hull full of concrete to keep the water out and totally beyond salvation. It's bean tins now.
A ship's called a she
@@quasimodo8959 "it" is perfectly correct English. Salty old sea-dogs might get upset about ships being called "it" but it doesn't make it bad English. My dog is a "she" to me but I don't get upset if people say "Is it friendly?"
So sad to see this big beauty just wasting away like that. #RIP#
There is nothing beautiful in the design of that ship.
Truly sad to see this beauty in decay.
@@hurri7720That’s only your opinion.
So sad, great dreams but no funds to see them through! Good Luck!
I sailed on the Duke of Lancaster when my sister and I were little girls, the only children on the ship so we had a great time having drink and crisps with the captain every night while sailing around the shetlands our purser was a Great guy brought us drinks every morning wonderful memories
What an appropriate melancholy muzik
Neglected, and probably soon to be scheduled to the scrappers. Then reborn as Buicks, Land Rovers, and razor blades! A whole new life
Yes, Great Britain has been so great about preserving its cultural heritage, you'd think an army of volunteers could put this beauty right in a jiffy. Come on chaps, show 'em how it's done!
At least, it cannot sink in any way.
Lou Ferigno auditioned for the role of the Rusting Hulk but he lost the part
to the " Duke of Lancaster ".
Nice to see that despite the condition people still want to see that the Duke of Lancaster be saved.
The situation with the Queen Mary is similar although no where near as bad as she is indeed beginning the first stage of being repaired. However the toxicity of people in the States and her is horrific. Over here in the US they truly have conditioned the people to give up at the first opportunity. Most of them at least not all.
As a historian I believe if it can be saved even if its s slimmer of a chance it should be done.
Unfortunately, the Queen Mary is in California. What I say next will be my personal bias. The state is broken in more ways than one and the people there keep voting for it. Not to mention some of the more powerful people have this weird idea that their position makes them smarter than those below them. For the longest time, the Queen Mary was treated as a building. Not even as a floating one; just a regular building you'd see on land. Because of that only minimal steps were taken against the sea. Honestly, I would like to see her and the SS United States in the Gulf of Mexico (since putting them back in service is out of the question).
@@americanace96 I just said they are beginning to start repairs on Queen Mary. Long Beach really wants the ship repaired. Of course there is talks of perhaps moving her closer to shoreline village. Where she could be better protected and the area there near the yacht club provides ample room for entertainment down town facilities and similar to be built. . Not everything is as bad as you think. Also I wouldnt want Queen Mary next to United States. United States should be given to a city back east that can care for her and out of the dockyard shes at. I'm hoping she is still sound however. She's taken a hell of a beating far more than Queen Mary has since being docked.
Fine old lady looks like a ship cornflake boxes these days 👌
The owner is actually restoring this ship but it is a slow process with not much help
It’s a lovely shade of neglect.
HOW ON EARTH did they get it up on the concrete like that ?
It was originally in water they just filled sand around it then concreted
just think of the people that could live in this structure.
You are beautiful inside and out.
You had might as well cut it up and weigh it in because it will never get done by a normal person because they would not have the money it takes somebody mega rich for a project like this
The black paint is somewhat recent actually. She used to have graffiti on the sides.
Whats its future? shall it stand here and rust or would be broken ?
Who in Gods name would go to the trouble and expense of painting the ship BLACK ??
I think to cover graffiti
Or rust
@@zeusapollo8688 That would provide some explanation but the obviously the next people to paint graffitti will use white paint !!!
Can't imagine a piece of junk along any coast line as desirable. It was built for a purpose, it did it's job well, now just take it apart. (Scrap it, sounds harsh).
It made a Y.T. video and now will continue to decay n rust allover that area. Time to let it go I think.
I hate to see a good ship wasted. A group of us tried to buy and save SS UGANDA the schools ship that was used in the Falklands as a hospital ship. We travelled to Port Stanley in her. The idea was to preserve the ship in private hands but I believe due to some cock up she ended up being cut up by mistake? I cant stand to see the photos of here she ended up beached and then badly damaged after breaking her moorings I think. From there just a matter of time she was torched. Many many people were furious about that.
Wonder how many gallons of paint it would take?
With the new sand blasting equipment the ship could be given a facelift and repainted so it could last longer and be more attractive to people wanting to use it as a party venue or hotel , something to think about .....
Go ahead buy the stuf and blast away.....
It's sad
Could use a lick of paint ...
Why?
Scrap steel get a high price these days!
No it doesn’t
Thats sort of a regional thing. Her value as scrap is not much if scrapped in the UK. If she was towed to a nation without metal ore for making new steal, then her value goes up, more so if you add cheap labour and lacked environmental laws there. Which is why ships are towed often around the world to be scrapped. I doubt she could make the trip to Turkey or Pakistan, so it would likely cost money to have her scrapped.
Yes but the ship is around 4800 tons And that is not all steel Built by Harland & Wolff Belfast and launched 1st December 1955 with sister ship Duke of Argyll following on 12th January 1956..
Scrapping a ship like that is disrespectful. Since no one appears to be serious about restoring her she should be allowed to go back to the sea one last time.
What is the plans for it
such a terrible shame-it looked like the old Incres Line's Queen Victoria
Why is she left there to rot and not scrapped for iron?
Rust is iron to....
Turn it into a Hotel, like many others.
That is a fine-looking ship.
Among the great tragedies of this obscene Age of Billionaires is that precious few of them seem to be in love with ships. If only we could somehow convince them that restoring old ships leads to superhuman sexual prowess...
Ships are used to make money, once they fulfill their useful life they're nothing more than scrap steel. The only way they become museums or get preserved is if they can still profit by bringing in money 💰. Dont you love capitalism?
Soundtrack sounds like it was inspired by Pink Floyd.
what a waste...someone should set up a go fund me to help save the ship...
Segera On line.
Lebih anyar dan bermuda.
the owner should pay to get rid of it, messing up out shoreline like that/.
Like it or lump it it's part of history of the ship and the coast.
But even the government neglect old property but they get a good pay for destroying the past.
She adds character to the shoreline...ships and the sea an eternal theme...otherwise you'd just have another chunk of muddy Dee estuary.
We can see her from our house...the view would be much diminished if she was gone.
@@pcjthe1 where actually is she now
@@td6369 Exactly the same place
This is going to make a good defensive position when things kick of.
At least its not covered in graffiti anymore, that's a blessing in itself.
This ship has a history locally and there is no grant either government or public to keep the ship preserved?
It did become knowledge not so long ago that network/british rail had unlawfully restricted access to it, so nothing could be done about its condition. Such a shame.