#NaomhEanna
- A vessel considered the 'last Irish heritage ship' is set to be cut up this
week as a campaign mounts to save her from the scrapheap.
The
Naomh Eanna was built in 1956 in Dublin's Docklands and previously served as a
passenger ferry in Galway Bay between the mainland and the Aran Islands.
Said
to be "one of the last riveted ships built in the world", she has
spent the last 28 years in a state of neglect at Grand Canal Dock and is
reported to be taking on water, though it's believed she retains many of her
original fittings and machine parts.
Last
week it emerged that ownership of the Naomh Eanna has transferred to Waterways
Ireland, who intend to tow her into the Grand Canal graving dock this week to
begin disposal.
But
according to Sam Field Corbett of marine heritage restoration business Irish
Ship & Barge Fabrication, "no consideration was given to salvage and
restore her".
Corbett
says he is confident that a business plan can be prepared to attract investment
for the Naomh Eanna's restoration - but fears that the scrapping plans may
proceed with haste before any alternative resolution is considered.
In
order for campaigners to save her, some €100,000 costs to Waterways Ireland
would need to be met, on top of insuring the vessel and getting permission from
NAMA to hold her in dry dock until repairs could begin.
Source:
afloat. 10 February 2014
http://afloat.ie/home/item/24399-heritage-ship-naomh-eanna-set-for-scrapping
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