Save the PS Ryde
Discussion
Hope this is ok. Just stumbled across the story on the BBC website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshi...
A campaign has begun to save a paddle steamer which took part in the D-Day landings during World War II but has since been left to rot away.
In its heyday PS Ryde took passengers from the Isle of Wight to Portsmouth.
During the war it helped in the evacuation at Dunkirk and to land troops on Omaha beach in Normandy.
The Ryde's owners went into receivership last year and it has been left to disintegrate. A historic ships society is trying to save the steamer.
Trust website here: http://www.psryde.co.uk/
.gov petition here FWIW: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PSRyde/
Seems a shame for a lovely old steamer to be scrapped or rot away when there are people keen to save her.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshi...
A campaign has begun to save a paddle steamer which took part in the D-Day landings during World War II but has since been left to rot away.
In its heyday PS Ryde took passengers from the Isle of Wight to Portsmouth.
During the war it helped in the evacuation at Dunkirk and to land troops on Omaha beach in Normandy.
The Ryde's owners went into receivership last year and it has been left to disintegrate. A historic ships society is trying to save the steamer.
Trust website here: http://www.psryde.co.uk/
.gov petition here FWIW: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PSRyde/
Seems a shame for a lovely old steamer to be scrapped or rot away when there are people keen to save her.
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