On Wednesday, the historic Falls of Clyde was towed 25 miles south of Honolulu Harbor, where it was sunk.
Built in Scotland in 1878, Falls of Clyde was the world’s only surviving four-masted, full-rigged ship. But the deteriorating former museum ship had languished at the Honolulu Harbor after being impounded in 2016.
The Hawaii Department of Transportation and its contractor Shipwright LLC, a Florida-based maritime technical consulting firm, removed the ship from Pier 7 on Wednesday morning around 5:30 a.m. It took Shipwright about six hours to tow the Falls of Clyde to the location where it was sunk.
On Tuesday night, members of the nonprofit Friends of Falls of Clyde, which took over ownership of the vessel from the Bishop Museum in 2008 and had tried for years to save the ship, held a send-off ceremony at the port…