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Thanks for all that interesting info Paul, and as you say, an expensive business preservation, and again as you say, it`s the question of saving something just because it`s old. I`ll give my own view relating to railway preservation, but this can equally be used in other forms of preservation be it ships, cars, planes, building`s etc. When steam was on it`s way out around the 1960 period, a commitee was set up to decide what artifacts should be saved for the national collection. Regarding the steam locomotive, sadly, a number of classes had already gone to the breaker`s and there are some important locomotive`s gone forever. In 1968, the pioneering ex-LMS mainline diesel loco, number 10000, was unceromoniously sent to the breaker`s. The national collection custodian`s have long regretted that, but it can`t be replaced. I`m wonder whether Ed maybe able to help on the above vessel, as to whether it`s the last of the old ferries or whether there are one or two other`s in service still? How nice last September to see the paddle steamer `WAVERLEY` in our port. Alas, the chance to see a ship resembling our own ferries from the 50s and 60s in Dover have gone forever.