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Pelican wrote: Wed Sep 15, 2021 5:29 pm Plans drawn up to save historic warship HMS Bronington from Birkenhead dock

See - https://www.whitchurchherald.co.uk/news ... head-dock/
Last push made to save veteran minesweeper HMS Bronington - 'Prince Charles' warship'


Enthusiasts are staging a final bid to save ‘Prince Charles’ warship’ HMS Bronington.
The minesweeper, which was commanded by the-then Lieutenant Wales for ten months in 1976, sank at her mooring on Merseyside six years ago.

The recently-formed HMS Bronington Preservation Trust Ltd believes there is a last chance to save the ship – now nearly 70 years old – before the elements finally take their toll.

It’s looking to raise around £5,000 for a dive survey – the first stage in a grand plan to raise Bronington, pump-out the flood water and then turn her into a working ship once more through continued fund-raising, sponsorship and grants.

The trust wants to see the wooden-hulled ship used to deliver yachting and diving courses, teach navigation, be hired for fishing/diving trips, filming, and used by Sea Cadets and the Prince’s Trust.

If those goals prove too much due to cost and unavailability of equipment, then Bronington would revert to becoming a static display alongside or in a dry dock, open to the public, similar to her successful years as a museum ship on the Manchester Ship Canal.

World-famous Merseyside shipbuilder Cammell Laird has agreed to take Bronington into their dry dock for restoration under their apprenticeship scheme in stages if the funding can be found.

Continues, including photos, at - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... qfNkeW5bdc
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Dive survey on HMS Bronington in Birkenhead docks today - first stage in efforts to preserve her.

Photos at - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 9652817921
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Pelican wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:58 pm Navy Lookout

Dive survey on HMS Bronington in Birkenhead docks today - first stage in efforts to preserve her.

Photos at - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 9652817921
Royal Navy's HMS Bronington: 'Last of wooden walls' warship once captained by Prince Charles can be saved, dive survey concludes


A FORMER Royal Navy warship once captained by Prince Charles that has been left rotting and submerged in a dockyard can be saved, a dive survey has concluded.

See - https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/peopl ... b6S2fSHR9U
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Pelican wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:41 pm
Pelican wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 10:58 pm Navy Lookout

Dive survey on HMS Bronington in Birkenhead docks today - first stage in efforts to preserve her.

Photos at - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 9652817921
Royal Navy's HMS Bronington: 'Last of wooden walls' warship once captained by Prince Charles can be saved, dive survey concludes


A FORMER Royal Navy warship once captained by Prince Charles that has been left rotting and submerged in a dockyard can be saved, a dive survey has concluded.

See - https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/peopl ... b6S2fSHR9U


Dive survey of partially sunk wooden minesweeper HMS Bronington concludes the ship is salvageable. No problems found with the aluminium frame of the vessel, just two small holes in the bow.

See - https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/ ... 2784604161
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Fundraising begins to raise ‘Prince Charles’ warship’ as survey says HMS Bronington can be saved


Raise the Bronington!
That’s the rallying cry of the team connected with the veteran minesweeper – best known as ‘Prince Charles’ warship’ – after a survey says she can be saved.
A dive survey was carried out by marine specialists earlier this summer and found despite appearances, with some minor remedial work on the hull to make her watertight again, the ship is in a satisfactory condition to be refloated.

And that is now the next objective of the voluntary preservation trust formed to save the ship.

They are hoping to raise £100,000 – not just to refloat/stabilise the ship, but also to transport her safely to a shipyard so the act of restoration can begin.

Ideally, they want to see Bronington as a working ship again, but if that proves too challenging/expensive, the trust will settle for turning the minesweeper into a museum ship either in the water or dry dock in a suitable location, assuming a role she fulfilled in the ’90s and early ’00s.

Bronington is one of around 120 wooden-hulled Ton-class minesweepers built in the 1950s, serving for nearly 35 years until she was paid off in 1988.

The ship is partially submerged in a dock basin on Merseyside having sunk at her moorings six years ago.

Continuing, including photos, at - https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... es-warship

Link from Tim.

[Will HRH P. Charles put his hand in his pocket? Guess we will never know either one way or the other.]
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Ton Class Minesweeper HMS Sheraton pictured c1988.
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HMS Bronington: 10 pictures showing warship in her pomp through to sad decline submerged in Merseyside docks

HMS Bronington played a vital role for Britain and her Allies during the Cold War – but despite her importance to the nation remains partially submerged at Birkenhead Docks in Merseyside as efforts to save her continue.
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Early 70s "chugging into Alexandria" for Suez canal clearance (HMS Abdiel in the background).

Bossington coming alongside Wilton & Maxton.
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Suez Canal Authority Building at Port Said 1974
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Towns wrote: Mon Sep 25, 2023 5:39 pm Suez Canal Authority Building at Port Said 1974
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Well after my time but one of the Bods on the bow of Bossington vouched for the photo.
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