Southend's "torture" ship boat - at least that's how I remembered it. Whatever happened to the wooden/tourist attraction boat that stood (floated?) next to the pier at Southend?
An email to Southend's tourist information centre got a swift response:
The 'Golden Hind' to which you refer was closed to the public in 1997, when the ship was purchased by the operators of Adventure Island. There was indeed a glass case at the entrance to the ship with a man under a swinging pendulum blade.
The Golden Hind had seen falling attendance figures and ever increasing maintenance costs in keeping the aging wooden ship open, after structural survey it was found the ship needed a major rebuilding program to get it re-open to the public, the cost of restoration was too high so the ship was scrapped.
A replacement ship was built, the 'Queen Anne's Revenge' which was a replica of the ship used by the notorious English pirate Blackbeard, it formed the centre piece of the Blackbeard Revenge attraction.
This too fell into disrepair and was demolished at the end of last year.
An email to Southend's tourist information centre got a swift response:
The 'Golden Hind' to which you refer was closed to the public in 1997, when the ship was purchased by the operators of Adventure Island. There was indeed a glass case at the entrance to the ship with a man under a swinging pendulum blade.
The Golden Hind had seen falling attendance figures and ever increasing maintenance costs in keeping the aging wooden ship open, after structural survey it was found the ship needed a major rebuilding program to get it re-open to the public, the cost of restoration was too high so the ship was scrapped.
A replacement ship was built, the 'Queen Anne's Revenge' which was a replica of the ship used by the notorious English pirate Blackbeard, it formed the centre piece of the Blackbeard Revenge attraction.
This too fell into disrepair and was demolished at the end of last year.
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