MV Horsa

[robpage]

it looks like the group "Sealink Historic Ferries" have purchased the ex Sealink , British Rail Ferry HORSA from Greek owners and will be returning her to the UK under tow , nice to hear of conservationists winning one for a change, anyone ever heard of this group

[Doc Vernon]

http://sealinkhistoricferries.org/history/horsa.html

History of the Ferry!

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Rob
How the world changes we used to sell our old ships to the Greeks, now they are selling their old ones to us.
Cheers Des

[robpage]

I normally think preservation of old ships is a total Money Pit but this is probably one of the few organisations that actually got to this stage and surprisingly enough it was the first I've heard of this one I know there was lots of futile attempt to rescue TS Dover which I believe is still rotting away on the Tees if it hasn't been dismantled yet but this one looks a real possibility

[happy daze john in oz]

Hi Rob
How the world changes we used to sell our old ships to the Greeks, now they are selling their old ones to us.
Cheers Des

Des, our two Tassie ferries here in Melbourne were at one time Italian ferries.
Had more refits than you could poke a stick at, but still going.........................just!

[robpage]

There have been so many hopeful preservation is that have fallen by the wayside and in my opinion they were probably better ships that have ended up on the Scrapheap for preservation but this one looks really well on his way . I don't know what it's going to cost and how much they expect to make from it and if they're hoping for lottery grants or whatever they're looking at the funding but my understanding now is that as far as they have got it's been basically on crowdfunding I think this must be a really good organisation and they have got there act together well I hope it's not too badly in need of refit and I would love to see it in the traditional Sealink colour with a blue Hull and the Red Funnel with the direction arrows on that shows which way the British Rail board were thinking half the time forward half the time backwards

[Nigel Smith]

Looks like they've only raised a tenner so far
Or am I looking in the wrong place?

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfund...toricalferries

[robpage]

I do not have a clue about their finances , can find no information

[Keith at Tregenna]

Sealink Historic Ferries

We are continuing to progress the plan to bring HORSA back to the UK and keeping our investors abreast of our progress. If you would like to jump on board be help us restore HORSA we would like to hear from you via our web site.

http://www.sealinkhistoricferries.or...ort/index.html

[robpage]

As I said in #8 in answer to the question put in #7 there seems to be very little financial information available but my understanding from something that I read was that the contract to purchase the fairy had been signed I'm not sure how setting concrete that is or how correct that fact is