http://www.submerged.co.uk/gotaway-noordze.php Shipwrecks and diving around Devon and the world Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.submerged.co.uk/gotaway-noordze.php#comment-45095 linda johnson Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:04:22 +0000 http://submerged.co.uk/wordpress/gotaway-noordze.php#comment-45095 I have just read the story regarding the Noordzee. & I would just like to make a few pointers that are the truth as I am the daughter of the last owner... Up to the time of her being raised & taken into Millbay Docks is the truth as far as I am aware, but as for my father, he wanted to turn her into a Cruise Liner & go to the Caribbean or Mediterranean, but did-not own another 2 vessels in the Caribbean that was popular with tourists??? Yes there was the minor mishap as my dad wanted to work on the hull, but she was taken in on the wrong angle & the tide turned, she got stuck & listed to the port side as the picture shows, we waited till the tide came in & she re-floated & taken back to shore. My father did not collapse & die of a heart attack, he actually died of cancer after being diagnosed with it 6 months prior. The company which did not exist consisted of my mother & myself (then aged 11yrs old) as it was not safe or correct to stay aboard we sold her through an auction which was then later sent for scrap & we left Plymouth to head back to South Wales where we had another vessel that we lived on, she was an ex-german e-boat & my dad converted her into a cruise liner, we later sold her & moved into a house. I hope this now puts things straight especially in my fathers memory. I have just read the story regarding the Noordzee. & I would just like to make a few pointers that are the truth as I am the daughter of the last owner…
Up to the time of her being raised & taken into Millbay Docks is the truth as far as I am aware, but as for my father, he wanted to turn her into a Cruise Liner & go to the Caribbean or Mediterranean, but did-not own another 2 vessels in the Caribbean that was popular with tourists???
Yes there was the minor mishap as my dad wanted to work on the hull, but she was taken in on the wrong angle & the tide turned, she got stuck & listed to the port side as the picture shows, we waited till the tide came in & she re-floated & taken back to shore.
My father did not collapse & die of a heart attack, he actually died of cancer after being diagnosed with it 6 months prior. The company which did not exist consisted of my mother & myself (then aged 11yrs old) as it was not safe or correct to stay aboard we sold her through an auction which was then later sent for scrap & we left Plymouth to head back to South Wales where we had another vessel that we lived on, she was an ex-german e-boat & my dad converted her into a cruise liner, we later sold her & moved into a house.
I hope this now puts things straight especially in my fathers memory.

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