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Welcome to TrinityMarine.co.uk, The Leading Light In Marine Antiques & Decor Want to know more about us?? Heres a lovely excerpt from a lovely book about the loveliest, 'Spirit of Chartwell', Queens Barge for the Pageant full with TM treasures, furniture & fittings. WHERE SHIPS GO WHEN THEY DIE There is a strange and particular place, on the coast of Gujarat, in Northern India, where half the world's ships go to die. Read more It's called Alang Bay, it's 30 miles south-east of the city of Bhavnagar, and it's the global capital of the marine re-cycling industry. Once a ship has beached here, be it an elegant cruise liner or a workday cargo tanker, the dismantling process begins, and doesn't stop for at least the next six months. A vessel that arrives as a 1,000-foot-long giant ends up leaving in small, skillfully-detached pieces. Everything, but everything, is removed and re-sold. The propeller, the engines, the wooden decks, the chairs, the washbasins, the crockery, the electrical equipment, the metal cables, the ship's hull, even the light bulbs and the beds. “I bought up 300 original bunk beds off an ocean liner just the other day”, says Mark Jameson, who, with father Roger, runs Trinity Marine, the UK firm which specialises in salvaging architectural and design treasures from de-commissioned ships, and which has supplied Philip Morrell's two cruise boats with pieces that once adorned the handsome ocean liners of the 1950's. The items that have come via Trinity include portholes, bar stools, coat hooks and assorted deck furniture from the RMS Union Castle, along with brass friezes from her sister ship, the RMS Kenya Castle, both of which belonged to the celebrated Union Castle cruise line. All of which were incorporated into the design both of the Morrell-owned river-cruise ship Lord Of The Glens, and its elegant counterpart, Spirit of Chartwell, which, on the third of June 2012, carried Queen Elizabeth up the River Thames, at the head of the Diamond Jubilee flotilla. “In many ways, Philip was ahead of the game when he first came to us, for pieces that would complement those ships”, says Jameson. “Since then, though, demand for marine collectables has just taken off: chandlery, fittings, ship's décor, you name it. Particularly from ships launched pre-1960. Things were built so solidly and permanently in those days, particularly in the Scottish shipyards.” And not jus Update description

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