Lack of cash will result in demolition of world’s oldest surviving clipper-class ship.
Tenders are being invited to demolish the world’s oldest surviving clipper ship which is scheduled for destruction at the Scottish Maritime Museum.
The City of Adelaide has been rotting away on the quayside at Irvine in Ayrshire since 1992.
Permission was given to demolish it after the maritime museum said it could not afford to pay for restoration work.
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