Drone_pilot
21-09-07, 23:02
A £2m fund-raising appeal has been launched in Liverpool to bring the
last surviving warship from the Battle of the Atlantic back to the city.
HMS Whimbrel worked as an escort vessel protecting convoys carrying vital
cargo supplies during World War Two, and is currently lying in dock in Egypt.
Liverpool was the UK's main convoy port where on average four arrived each day.
It is hoped she can be now be restored and become a visitor attraction on
the Liverpool waterfront.
The Whimbrel was vital to the Battle of the Atlantic. Over 1,000 convoys
arrived on Merseyside during the war, and she was the called the "Rolls
Royce of wartime escort ships" by the navy.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7005741.stm)
HMS Whimbrel web site (http://www.hmswhimbrel.org/)
last surviving warship from the Battle of the Atlantic back to the city.
HMS Whimbrel worked as an escort vessel protecting convoys carrying vital
cargo supplies during World War Two, and is currently lying in dock in Egypt.
Liverpool was the UK's main convoy port where on average four arrived each day.
It is hoped she can be now be restored and become a visitor attraction on
the Liverpool waterfront.
The Whimbrel was vital to the Battle of the Atlantic. Over 1,000 convoys
arrived on Merseyside during the war, and she was the called the "Rolls
Royce of wartime escort ships" by the navy.
BBC Read More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7005741.stm)
HMS Whimbrel web site (http://www.hmswhimbrel.org/)