[Fwd: DeLorean Body Dies - Sea Dumping]

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

Got this today - did we all see the feature on www.dmcnews.com?

Cheerio,

Martin


Bryan Morgan wrote:

> Dear Martin,
> We didn't know until yesterday there was a UK Delorean Owners site or we'd
> have sent this to you first! We are a group restoring the Severn Princess,
> the old car ferry that used to ply between Beachley and Aust (ie, Wales and
> England) up until the opening of the Severn Bridge.
> After the opening of the bridge she was sold to an Irish company, and one of
> her jobs in Ireland in about 1986 was dropping DeLorean body dies overboard
> as anchors for a fish farm! Photographs of this being done have been sent
> to us by her Irish skipper, Capt. Brendan O'Donnell.
> Thinking that DeLorean enthusiasts were probably as obsessed as Car Ferry
> enthusiasts, I idly surfed around until I found a DeLorean owners club site,
> (the American one came up) and asked them if they were interested. Were they
> Interested? You bet! They replied within TEN minutes, and set about getting
> a download of all the Sea Dumping photographs from me, which they turned
> into a special edition of their magazine, including, embarrassingly, all my
> emails word-for-word. I asked why our private correspondence had been
> published and I was told that they were fascinated with the "quaint way you
> English write". It took another email to correct the magazine story, where
> I had to point out that I was Welsh not English, and that 'South Wales' and
> 'New South Wales' are two different places...
> Anyway, the eventual results can be seen at
> http://dmcnews.com/Resourc/bodydies/bodydies.html.
> Our own website with the full story from our point of view is at
> http://www.severnprincess.co.uk . Look up the 'Photo Albums' section, and
> from there go to 'Brendan O'Donnell's Princess' where you will see 'the
> DeLorean connection' about half way down the page. There's only four of the
> pics there, but if you'd like the lot this can be easily arranged, at
> whatever size and resolution you'd like.
> Hope this is of interest!
> Yours sincerely,
> Bryan Morgan
> Project Administrator
> The Severn Princess Restoration Group
>
> >From Bryan Morgan, in Border Monmouthshire, between the Severn Bridges.
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> We've saved the last Severn Ferry boat!! Read the dramatic story of the
> rescue of the
> SEVERN PRINCESS from being broken up, saving a little bit of Chepstow's
> maritime history.
> She's moored at http://www.severnprincess.co.uk
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> A complete Kellys Directory of Monmouthshire for 1901 is online now!
> Look it up at http://www.kellys1901.co.uk
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