Workers in those imposing stone buildings fronting the quayside, near the Custom House and Lune Street may well have watched the final end of the troop-landing ship ''River Clyde'' that played a fine part in the abortive landing at Anzac-Suyla Bay.
I saw to my sorrow last week that there are now only left some buckled plates and the four-cylinder engine, still in good shape with it's propeller-shaft coupling clearly visible.
Can any reader say if relics of the ship, i.e. it's bell or brass name-plate from the bridge have been preserved. They should certainly find a place in Lancaster Museum.
Peter H. Liddle in his book ''men in Gallipoli'' (publisher Allen Lane, 1976 - copy in Lancaster Library) gives an absorbing contrast between the official findings on the campaign and the written and verbal evidence of many who suffered on that debacle.
Copyright The Lancaster Gardian, Reproduced here with their kind permission.
Thanks to the Lancaster Library Reference and Information Service for Tracking down the clipping.
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Clyde's sad ending.
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