The Scottish Maritime Museum is in dire financial straits.  The City of Adelaide, the oldest (just barely) surviving composite clipper ship in the world,  has been rotting on a slipway at Irvine, near Glasgow, for almost a decade because the museum lacked the funds to restore her.  Now the museum lacks the funds even to pay outstanding dockage fees and to have the old ship broken up.    While there has been much talking and pleading to save the ship, so far no one has come up with funding to do so.  As we noted in a previous post, while the City of Adelaide, Australia claims that it lacks the funds the enact a rescue, the city did recently spend $30 million to build an enclosure for two pandas on loan from China.

Disposing of ship could bankrupt Scots museum