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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

A pity it was not restored!

The 279 ton barquentine,  Cap Pilar ,built in St. Malo, France for the cod trade by G.Gautier. Acquired by the Palestine Maritime League, the Cap Pilar was to be restored for youth sail training, but the money needed was not raised. . She was bought by a young crew who wanted to sail round the world which they did between 1936-38. After W.W.2 she was towed up to Wivenhoe where she became derelict and ended up in Wivenhoe dry dock and covered in concrete, when the old shipyard site became a timber yard

Text by John Collins -shipbuilding on the Colne 
Nick Butler- The Story of Wivenhoe.

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