Oldest Floating Clyde-built Ship to Be Refurbished
After a program of vital welding work, the Scottish Maritime Museum is on track to complete essential repairs to what is believed to be the oldest floating Clyde-built ship in time for the vessel’s 150th anniversary this Summer.
The Scottish Maritime Museum raised £40,000 for much-needed repairs to the 1872 MV Kyles, one of Britain’s most important historic vessels and a rare and nationally important survivor from a key period in Glasgow shipbuilding, through a Keep the Kyles Afloat Crowdfunder campaign last year.
The Museum’s technical team, curators and volunteers began work on the 122 tonne cargo coaster, which is part of the UK’s National Historic Fleet and older than the Falls of Clyde, tall ship Glenlee and the Sir Walter Scott, last year.
Together, they repainted MV Kyles inside and out and restored the cabins to how they would have looked when it was a working vessel.
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