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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Dan Haygarth

Yacht pulled from bed of the Mersey almost 100 years ago to be transformed

A yacht which sank in the Mersey in 1914 will be restored thanks to National Lottery funding.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded a grant of £58,000 to restore the yacht, named Severn, which is now owned by Cumbria's Arnside Sailing Club. It was built by Crossfields in Arnside for the Royal Mersey Yacht Club in 1921, but it sank in a race on July 23, 1914.

The vessel was discovered in good condition on the bed of the Mersey in 1927. It was then sold for £25 by the Receiver of Wreck to Joe Wallace, from West Cheshire Sailing Club in New Brighton, who restored her and named her Severn.

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