Unicorn’s Future: Dundee Central Waterfront?
A proposed site for Unicorn within Dundee's central waterfront development
It is increasingly clear that Unicorn cannot remain afloat indefinitely, and that, in order to preserve her extraordinary originality, she should be docked in a dry berth covered from the weather. In recent years an opportunity has arisen for Unicorn to move to such a final berth within Dundee’s Central Waterfront development, close to where she spent her first century in Dundee.
This option would place HMS Unicorn in a spectacular triangular relationship with RRS Discovery and the V&A Dundee, and would bring Dundee’s two great historic ships back together.
Extremely disappointingly, a bid for Heritage Lottery Fund support for this proposal was turned down in 2008, though with the clear message from HLF that they expected a modified bid to be submitted in due course.
This modified bid is now being developed, with several significant improvements over the 2008 bid and it is hoped that a new bid will be submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2013-14, with a plan for a move to the Central Waterfront in 2016.
