Ep 37 - Making & Fitting New Stringers For The Boat With Oak
Thanks for being here -
We are 9 months into our voyage! we stumbled across an old WW2 ship on eBay, and without thinking we bought her! So this is the start of something crazy, she has so much history and so many stories to tell, So along the way as well as trying to bring her back to life we will also be looking back at her history.
We are very hands on people, in our day job we build camper vans, so we are hoping to use our skills, and obviously we have so much more to learn along the way!
Please be kind, we take all of your comments to heart so if you haven’t got anything positive to say then don’t say anything at all!!! But any help and advice you can give along the way would be great!
Intro Music is a song that was written for us, here is the full song (this can also be purchased from our Merch Store
About Sarinda - ML1392
Wartime Activities
6/44 Operation Neptune Invasion of Normandy
149th ML Flotilla
ML1295, ML1309, ML1383, ML1387, ML1389, ML1391, ML1392, ML1393, ML1407, ML1409, ML1421. ML1422
6/6/44 Channel Marker at Gold Beach on D-Day
Distributing instructions in the assault anchorage after the first landings in Normandy (Gazette Date - 19/12/44)
6/3/45 Captured a German Biber Type midget submarine off Breskens in the Scheldt Estuary. Eleven Bibers had sortied that day. Four were found abandoned along the coast at North Beveland, Knocke, Domberg and Zeebrugge.
One was sunk by gunfire off Westkapelle on 8 March and five vanished.
Post War Fate
1946 Fast Despatch Boat = FDB73
10/47 HM Customs & Excise = Valiant
1967 Sold = Frol - Pejo
1974 =Sarinda (Charter work on Crinan Canal)
1980-91 Extensive conversion to luxury motor yacht
11/95 Base ported at Liverpool