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HMS Whimbrel and the Battle of the Atlantic Memorial

 
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:46 pm    Post subject: HMS Whimbrel and the Battle of the Atlantic Memorial Reply with quote

I read about this in the November issue of the BBC History magazine.

http://www.hmswhimbrel.org/index.php

The intention is to return an old Glasgow built Second World War Sloop HMS Whimbrel from Egypt where she is lying mothballed to Liverpool to create a memorial to the Battle of the Atlantic.
They reckon it will cost £2m to return her to the UK and a further £2M to refit her to her as a museum and memorial.

She was a Convoy Escort from 1943 - 1945 in the Atlatic and Far East and served on in the RN until 1949 when she was sold to Egypt. Renamed as the E.N.S. Tariq she served in the Egyptian Navy until 2002 virtually unchanged from her wartime condition.

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Adam Brown
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Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)

PostPosted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This project is now in abeyance according to their website. I don’t know exactly what has happened because the project was looking for £2m to buy the destroyer but they are now saying that the price the Egyptians are asking is too much for them.

Have the Egyptians moved the goalposts?

What this means is there are now two Clyde-built Second World War destroyers still in Egypt. The former HMS ‘Whimbrel’ and the former HMS ‘Zenith’.

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