Cutty Sark disaster
I am finding it hard to come to terms with the fact that it looks like someone actually wanted the Cutty Sark to die - the police are treating this morning's fire as "suspicious." Thank heavens they were stupid enough not to wait until the ship was complete (the masts and other stuff are away being restored at the moment.)
According to the news (I couldn't make it down there) they now have the fire under control, but they reckon that 80% of what was there at the time (the hull, basically) is "significantly damaged" - and it wasn't in great nick to start with.
Aparently the fire began (or was started) around 5.00am this morning - and at first the fire brigade assumed at first it was chemicals from the restoration, which hampered their putting it out (it could ahve been dangerous for fire fighters.)
The guy from the Cutty Sark Trust has been on saying that they're still determined to renovate it. I will be joining the trust now, and doing what I can to raise funds to help them try to undo what these arses have done (I've always meant to but now I'm actually going to do it...) I still can't believe what's happened.
More when I know it.
According to the news (I couldn't make it down there) they now have the fire under control, but they reckon that 80% of what was there at the time (the hull, basically) is "significantly damaged" - and it wasn't in great nick to start with.
Aparently the fire began (or was started) around 5.00am this morning - and at first the fire brigade assumed at first it was chemicals from the restoration, which hampered their putting it out (it could ahve been dangerous for fire fighters.)
The guy from the Cutty Sark Trust has been on saying that they're still determined to renovate it. I will be joining the trust now, and doing what I can to raise funds to help them try to undo what these arses have done (I've always meant to but now I'm actually going to do it...) I still can't believe what's happened.
More when I know it.
Labels: News
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
08:18
8 Comments:
It's absolutely devastating, it really is. It's such an important part of the Greenwich skyline. I share your disbelief that someone could start this deliberately...
Just horrible. A classic 'Sad But True-ism' that it's only when a landmark is seriously threatened that you really appreciate it. Greenwich without the Cutty Sark is unthinkable.
The latest news seems to indicate it might not be quite as disastrous as we were led to believe at first (although the pictures on the news this morning look completely catastrophic). Apparently 50% of the ship is off site so that's safe and the remainder might not be too badly damaged. But we will see, I'm sure it will take some time to work out the full extent of the damage. Let’s hope it is all restorable. Fully agree with Graham that you don't appreciate something until it is (almost) gone.
If it was started deliberately (and I REALLY hope it wasn't) let's hope they catch those responsible and let justice do it's thing (or alternatively put them in stocks in Cutty Sark gardens so we can all throw fruit/insults/blunt implements at them).
Unbelievable! To think some moron may have started the fire deliberately. I hope the reports that 50% of the CS had been removed prior to restoration.
I hope the CCTV gives the police some clues???
At least I can hear myself think now the press helicopters have buggered off.
I showed the Cutty Sark to some friends over the weekend, there wasn't a lot left besides a rusty iron skeleton. Therefore I've got hope that the reports saying the damage isn't too bad are right.
We were in in that plastic white building next to the Sark just this weekend, and they have the figure head and lots of important stuff in there, so at least that is not lost.
I hear a vicious rumour that the fire was started by three black guys who thought that they were doing "a good thing" by destroying what they thought was a slave trading ship! What ignorant idiots.
...and you believed it? I cannot, for one second think that that is anything other than an extremely nasty rumour dreamed up by the BNP.
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