Remember the Royal Iris?

[Searush]

All senior scousers will remember the Floating Fish & Chip shop from the 50's & 60's. Well, poor old dear is sinking, unloved & unwanted at her berth on the Thames. We can't let such an icon of Mersey culture rot away.

Please sign this petition to bring her home.

If anyone knows the owner, Mr James Jegede, please put him in touch with this group who want to bring her back to where she belongs

 

[DogWatch]

hmmm,

There is some justice going on here, that boat almost sunk the ex MFV I used to skipper after she broke from her berth and was blown across Alfred dock, crushing our boat against the wall.

Fair-doos, the jockish knew how to make 40ft work boats, she did stand up to the punishment far better than say a GRP boat might have done. But, because of this I lost my useful income which was helping me through college.

Is the iris really an icon, yes I have been to a few parties on board her, once in a F9 up and down the Mersey, that was a fun night, we drank her dry of everything but mild ... we do have our limits up here...

I'll have to have a think about this.

 

[bigwow]

Unfortunately there is not a lot left to save and the hull is paper thin, which is why she was sold. When she was first sold she was stripped out to furnish Mr Smiths night club in Warrington, what was left was then sold on to the current owner, so at the end of the day there is not a lot worth a saving. She is also too wide to fit in the Canning or Albert docks where the museum is., and at 1234 tons she is too heavy for the Mersey Mammoth to lift over the Canning entrance gates, so where would she go.

 

[Searush]

Vittoria Dock on the Birkenhead complex would be a fine spot - or by the German U-boat on the Wallasey quay side.

There can't be many Art-deco boats around, she has to be unique.

 

[bigwow]

All staircases and most things decorative were removed before she left for London, as far as I'm aware there is nothing left worth saving