News of an appeal from my home town, Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, which is trying to raise funds to conserve and bring back an extra special vessel to the town:
APPEAL LAUNCHED AND WEBSITE EXPANDED
The Carrickfergus Tall Ship Project is embarking on a fundraising campaign to develop their plans to conserve and bring home the last Carrick-built ship. The Result was built in the town's Victorian shipyard and had a long career as a merchant schooner providing a lifeline to coastal communities during both peace and wartimes. Additionally she saw action as a Q-Ship in the First World War with weaponry hidden on board to lure in and attack unsuspecting German U-Boats.
Our website has a number of new pages providing an in depth account of Result's history, our project aims and how to support us - including an appeal for donations to help raise funds for the necessary vessel conservation and transport logistics surveys, and enabling works.
Since the Carrickfergus Tall Ship Project was launched in July 2024 it has been engaged in discussions with the Result’s owners National Museums NI, and the Mid & East Antrim Borough Council.
For further details please visit https://www.carrickfergustallship.com/news/appeal-launched-to-bring-home-the-result
* The Result has always had a wee place in my heart, as whilst attending Model Primary School in Carrick in 1980, my P5 class did a project about it, which was featured on BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme. The Result was built in the small Paul Rodgers shipyard that used to exist where today's Legg Park is located, and I was interviewed with fellow classmates about our project, then went home. As the news came on that eveing, my aunt from Belfast phoned my dad to say "Our Chris is on the telly, our Chris is on the telly!" as the opening lines of the story played out, with various shots of us all doing our project playing out as the narrator spoke. Then came the interviews, and I had been cut out - my aunt was raging! It was, however, the first time I had ever been glimpsed on the telly, even fleetingly, and I remember being fascinated by the camera crew at work, not knowing that within a couple of decades I would be directing my own programmes for the Corporation!
Chris
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