Members of the Skylark IX Recovery Project travelled to Irvine to visit the little ship as they prepare to begin fundraising to give her a purpose-built home in Dumbarton.
Skylark saved the lives of hundreds of allied soldiers during evacuation at Dunkirk in World War II, before returning to Scotland and operating as a pleasure cruiser on Loch Lomond.
She sank in the River Leven in 2010, before being hauled from the water and taken to the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine for restoration works.
