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Letters

This is an urgent appeal to boaters worldwide to help restore the Falls of Clyde – a four-masted full-rigged ship still afloat at Honolulu.
Time is now critical: officials in Hawaii have threatened to destroy the vessel if it is not relocated, as they want the wharf space.
It’s important to note that skilled hands in Scotland will do the restoration. The immediate need now is to cover the cost of transport from Hawaii to Glasgow. That done, additional donations can cover the refitting.
Readers are referred to the website, “Save Falls of Clyde International”, which takes donations and also has photos and additional information.
Other funding efforts have proven inadequate. I am trying a direct appeal to the millions of people involved in boating.


The Falls of Clyde was launched near Glasgow in 1878, the first of several named for waterfalls in Scotland. Her first voyage was to Karachi, and she was in the India trade for about six years.
About 1899, she entered the Hawaii trade, her rig changed to a barque. She made over 60 passages with sugar and molasses from Hawaii to California, and later – after conversion to an under-sail tanker – oil from California to Hawaii.
After World War I, she made her final voyage under sail, to Brazil, but by 1922, she was a hulk in Alaska, serving as a floating oil depot.

She was salvaged in the 1960s and returned to Hawaii, and restored by 1973. Following hurricane damage in 1982, she was again repaired and was the showpiece of the Hawaii Maritime Centre, at Honolulu.
Since the 1980s, however, the Falls of Clyde has been neglected for lack of funds. There were plans, about 2008, to scuttle the hulk. That fate was postponed.
Now, since 2016, “Falls of Clyde International” has assumed responsibility for completing the restoration.
I urge your readers to help raise funds to transport the Falls of Clyde from Hawaii to Glasgow, and to get her restored.
John G.R. Wolfe, Anchorage, Alaska


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Help save the Falls of Clyde, the world’s last remaining sail-driven oil tanker

The Falls of Clyde at the Honolulu harbour. Funds are needed to transport the ship from Hawaii to Scotland, where she will be restored. Photo: Wikipedia

The Falls of Clyde at the Honolulu harbour. Photo: Wikipedia

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A man walks past the statue of Ephebos inside the museum Antiquarium in Pompeii, southern Italy, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021.Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii's museum is back in business, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the ancient Roman city. Officials of the archaeological park of the ruins of the city destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius inaugurated the museum on Monday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Archeological findings are shown at the museum Antiquarium, in Pompeii, southern Italy, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii's museum is back in business, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the ancient Roman city. Officials of the archaeological park of the ruins of the city destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius inaugurated the museum on Monday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A fresco depicting Venus and Cupid is displayed at the museum Antiquarium, in Pompeii, southern Italy, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii's museum is back in business, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the ancient Roman city. Officials of the archaeological park of the ruins of the city destroyed in 79 A.D. by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius inaugurated the museum on Monday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Visitors visit the service reservoir in Shek Kip Mei's Wo Chai hill (Bishop Hill) is now being demolished. Officially known as the "Sham Shui Po Fresh Water Break Pressure Tank", the roman style architecture was built before 1930. The area is a popular hiking spot for residents.     28DEC20      SCMP / Winson Wong

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