Background chatting simply excruciating 😮…and quite frankly the whole video was informative overload 😂, all the data , info , insights 😅

What has happened to the ship now and has it been restored

Pretty boat.

It's so sad seeing a beautiful tall ship beached or stranded on the rocks like that.

Too bad it came up looking like Swiss cheese was a good looking boat

Fantastic job by the guys ,she is worth saving.

A bunch of clowns were sailing that ship, they didn't know how to sail such a vessel

How long was she under? Looks like a lot of marine growth.

A shame she wasn't restored.

How the F*ck did it get so close in to the rocks, ships like that are designed for piers not coasts, you want to look at the rocks, try binoculars and a whaler.

Good job 👍

Very impressive story behind the Astrid and a very sad ending. Going off Wikipedia many mistakes were made that ended up in the ship being pulled apart. For it to have been rebuilt in the 80’s and then scraped after she sank makes you wonder whether she was offered to the public or the insurance company just scraped her to get some money back.

Patrick St when cars where faster than walking.

One of our earlier attempts of a motorway.

Can see that again the way were going.

I was working in kinsale at the time. I remember passing the emergency vehicles while I was travelling the back road to Crosshaven. I remember it coming into kinsale harbour on the barge it was a very ghostly image. Hard to believe it was that long ago. Edit. I was also present at the auction of the LE Emer when she was sold in the hotel in Carrigaline by Dominic Daly. Second edit. At 4:42 the MY Llanthony can be seen in the background. She was a Dunkirk ship with a very interesting past. The company I worked with handled the sale of the boat to a retired British army officer. I took her west to old court with Davy Hyde of Crosshaven and another gentleman for preparation before she was taken to England. We woke half of Kinsale at 4:30am that morning starting her up.

just drop it in deep water

Ouch.

Ships like this should be left in their watery graves. The costs of this recovery are a waste of money. This wreck would be completely gone in a few years.

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Brilliant thanks for sharing 👍🏻☘️

Thanks for sharing this with us!

From Mision Cruz Hermitage in Somerset, TEXAS. Lovely family on cart and donkey on the way to church!

Great job! With the keel mangled and broken that is one fragile ship.

Next the Titanic

Shows that anything is possible if we have the political will.

There was still good number of farmers in many counties in lreland bringing the milk churns to the local creamery right up until the the mid 1980s .

Great and experience team work . God bless you all dear. India Vasco da gama Goa 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Engineering Mastery en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STV_Astrid#:~:text=Astrid%20sinking%20on%2024%20July%202013%20The%20wreck,part%20of%20a%20European%20Union%20International%20Exchange%20program.

Can hear a few scrap-men gibbering away in the background.... Moths too the light....

Imagine going back in time and showing someone from(let’s say) the 1800’s this’d, they’d probably call you a witch or something, or that that is impossible.

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I approached the wreckage on the kayak. It was strange, scary feeling.... There is a company/shop in Kinsale , they made bags from the sails of Astrid, suppose very unique ones..

Shame that they did not make any effort to salvage Herzogin Cecilia when she hit a rock and sunk near Salcombe in 1936.

Extract from Wikipedia - "STV Astrid was a 41.90-metre (137 ft 6 in) long tall ship that was built in 1918 in the Netherlands as a lugger and originally named W.U.T.A., short for Wacht Uw Tijd Af meaning "Bide Your Time". She was later transferred to Swedish ownership, renamed Astrid and sailed on the Baltic Sea until 1975. She then sailed under a Lebanese flag and was allegedly used for drug smuggling. After being found burnt out on the coast of England in the early 1980s, she was overhauled and used as a sailing training vessel. She was based in Weymouth, Dorset, United Kingdom and was informally known as "Weymouth's vessel". Astrid ran aground off the coast of Ireland on 24 July 2013, and subsequently sank, with all on board rescued. She was salvaged on 9 September 2013, but as the cost of restoring her was too high she was scrapped and broken up by April 2014." Such an incredible shame that they ended up scapping her anyway!

Impressive sight.

And no attempt to salvage the Asgard, WHY ? the French navy inspected her and gave the salvage of her the 👍👍👍. Bloody sad.

Very intersting footage of saving marine heritage!

It's always a sad sight to see a beautiful sailing ship founder. It seemed like one of the famous old Gibson photographs of wrecks on the Isles of Scilly brought to life, Thankfully no lives were lost.

Amazing video! I am an ex Merchant Navy mariner, and my Farther spent his final years in Kinsale, and now lies buried there. My Dad and I spent some wonderful times sailing around those waters in his Westerly 29 whenever I would visit him. He was a well known member of Kinsale Yacht Club, and that is where we held his "wake". I was once introduced to the skipper of the "Astrid", although his name now sadly escapes me! I had no idea she went down. Iv'e been retired and living in SE Asia for 15 years now. What happened, do we know how She ended up on the rocks?

It takes a goodly number of skilled people to handle one of these vessels. Everyone wants to climb the rigging and very few want to deal with the Real Beast in the hold. Dirt and oil etc. but it is very important and necessary to have skilled engineers backing each other up with good communication. I cannot place blame here without facts of why Astrid met her end so dishonourably. I can say "Damn Shame, Damn Shame!" I hope lessons were learned. We all make mistakes, move on and stick with keeping these Ladies of the Wind and Waves going!

All that effort, and then she was scrapped.

this ship should not have been left so long, its a bloody disgrace.

shut those kids up.

Is that actually salvageable?

Nice job ref listing that ship. 👍

I probably shouldn't put it this way but , what jagoff managed to sink that beautiful bark?

She got beat up pretty bad, Did she get repaired?

that is a tough ship...

1000 litres of fresh water was pumped into one of the four fuel tanks in Brighton. Tests after salvage indicated that the main engine had also ingested fresh water, without power the wind had driven the ship onto the rocks. The Astrid was deemed too expensive to repair and was scrapped.