The Cutty Sark is on fire.

[dangerous]

Luckily it is not under the supervision of the Navy, like the HMS Victory. That ship will never burn since the squids have stolen everything possible, to sell to the tourists...

She will probably will be restored, like Westminster castle was a few years back.

judging by that vid... shes farked, if its rebuilt then it will be a replica not the real sark

[Indiana_Jones]

yea, but it's not just the same. I feel gutted

-Indy

[jonbuoy]

What sort of person does that for entertainment. Wankers. The only thing worse than that is seeing it happen slowly through neglect.

[Curious_AJ]

yeah... man.... i cant believe people sometimes...

[MD]

Now that is sad. I visited her years ago. The Brits will not like this. One thing the Brits do well is respect and preserve their history. If it looks old...build a shrine around it.
That's what makes doing your OE to the UK so touching. Visiting places like Stonehenge & co. and really feeling the history. For all we know Stonehenge was just a public urinal, but still so awe inspiring to visit. Same with treasures like the Cutty Sark. No matter how well they rebuild it, it's no longer the work of people that lived in 1869 and that sense of human history is lost.

[Karma]

Visiting places like Stonehenge & co. and really feeling the history. For all we know Stonehenge was just a public urinal, but still so awe inspiring to visit.

It was better before they put up all the tape... can't get within 10 metres of the columns now

[Swoop]

judging by that vid... shes farked, if its rebuilt then it will be a replica not the real sark

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/...ectid=10441052
The papers this morning say that she will be rebuilt. The masts were out, as was the figurehead and ships wheel.
An iron frame with timber planking.

She will end up like the historic "authentic" warbird aircraft that we see flying around. Rebuilt, but with some original parts.

(hopefully)

[Indiana_Jones]

Yea, it doesn't seem to be as bad as it looked. But we have to rebuild her regardless.

-Indy

[Swoop]

I wonder if this was a subtle attack by Al Quaeda???
"Start going after the national monuments" campaign of terror!

We had better put an armed guard on the bucket fountain in Wellytown!!!!!!

[Street Gerbil]

Bugger. Bastards.

[Nasty]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/...ectid=10441052
The papers this morning say that she will be rebuilt. The masts were out, as was the figurehead and ships wheel.
An iron frame with timber planking.

She will end up like the historic "authentic" warbird aircraft that we see flying around. Rebuilt, but with some original parts.

On the news tonight they were saying 60% iof the boat wasn't there so a rebuild was almost a sure thing .. and if this had not happened it would not have lasted another 10 years as it was.

[Swoop]

On the news tonight they were saying 60% iof the boat wasn't there so a rebuild was almost a sure thing .. and if this had not happened it would not have lasted another 10 years as it was.

Insurance job??? Strangely coincidental.

A massive "Save the Cutty Sark" campaign will begin to raise funds and they get a swept-up restoration.

There really was bugger all inside her compared to the historic artefacts on board the Victory.

[SPman]

It was half way through a 26 million pound rebuild anyway, which is why most of the stuff was out. The iron work was severely corroded, from its 50 years of sitting around, so they had pulled the timber out to get at that to conserve it.

[Indiana_Jones]

Insurance job??? Strangely coincidental.

A massive "Save the Cutty Sark" campaign will begin to raise funds and they get a swept-up restoration.

There really was bugger all inside her compared to the historic artefacts on board the Victory.

I read in the paper today that the insurance money wasn't enough to fix the ship, so I donno

Now the Titanic on the other hand........

-Indy