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WILDORA

Uploaded by DOGSBODY , Oct 17 2009 03:03 PM

WILDORA

WILDORA, UNDERGOING RESTORATION ON SUNDERLAND SOUTH DOCK. SHE WAS PART OF THE FLOATILLA OF BOATS THAT RESCUED MEN FROM DUNKIRK DURING WW11.




    Guest
    Oct 17 2009 03:31 PM
    Hi Paul

    Interesting history - cannot find much information on the Net - former Fifie by the sounds of it. Looks like some further work required to get her back in the water  :crazy2:

    Regards

    Steve E.

    DOGSBODY
    Oct 17 2009 03:40 PM
    aye steve, she looks a bit rough now, but i think her hull is sound, she's been in sunderland for years, lay sunk in the dock then was refloated and used as a pleasure boat for a while, now in the hands of the sunderland maritime heritage trust, she is poss the last ov the dunkirk vets left ............. :crazy2: O0 O0

    Guest
    Oct 17 2009 03:49 PM
    Hi Paul

    Still a few about - I'm sure there is another one in the NE but I cannot recall details at the moment  :crazy2:

    Take a look at these examples that are still about http://www.dlsrt.org.uk/Layout.htm

    Regards

    Steve E.

    graham
    Oct 17 2009 07:22 PM
    you need to come to Ramsgate,one day a year we have all the remaining floating/working ones turn up for a trip across the channel.Some are looking better now than when there where built but some dont.got one in the boat park being put back together

    bobby lynne
    Oct 27 2009 08:56 PM
    she had the hull completly rebuilt with a lot of new planks,  by a training scheme on the river tyne next to the ouseburn.
    I had a run on the river in her she went well , was used to take people on river trips during the gateshead garden festivel when they had a sailpast.  this must have been about 25 to 30 years ago.