We have posted extensively about the oldest just barely surviving composite clipper ship, the City of Adelaide, which is in danger of being broken up in May. We have also noted the arguments over the HMAS Adelaide, which may or may not be sunk as an artificial reef.  Now, with thanks to Dick Kooyman, we have learned of another City of Adelaide at risk of being moved to a local dump.

Historic lifeboat bound for local dump

An historic lifeboat in a maritime museum at Port Lincoln could end up in a dump because funds cannot be found to restore it.   The City of Adelaide is steam-powered and jet-propelled and was SA’s first lifeboat.

It is displayed at Port Lincoln’s Axel Stenross Maritime Museum and has been declared an historic shipwreck, which requires that it be preserved.   But the council is investigating a proposal by Councillor Michael Bascombe that the wreck be “preserved” at Port Lincoln’s rubbish dump.