A Ship at Risk: The Triangle of Opportunity
HMS Unicorn in her proposed location, forming a spectacular triangle of opportunity with RRS Discovery and the V&A Dundee. The weather covering is not shown.
There is an extraordinary opportunity to move Unicorn to an exciting new site within Dundee’s Central Waterfront development, which will link Unicorn, Discovery and the V&A in a spectacular cultural triangle.
Unicorn’s structure is considered the most original of any of the World’s large historic ships, and it is proposed to preserve the ship out of water and protected from the weather.
Unicorn out of the water and protected from the weather
The Heritage Lottery Fund, the main agency for funding of historic ships in Britain, awarded the Unicorn Preservation Society a project planning grant in 2007, and this was used to prepare an application for a main heritage grant in 2008. Very disappointingly, this application was turned down, though with the clear proviso that a modified application would be considered in future.
The 'Triangle of Opportunity' - RRS Discovery, V&A Dundee, HMS Unicorn
The Unicorn Preservation Society is now preparing such a modified application, and intends to submit a new bid c2014. In the meantime, Unicorn’s structure is deteriorating fast and an extended roof has just been completed which will protect the ship until she can be moved.
