The Egremont officially has three weeks for someone to come forward with a last ditch effort to save it.

Sharpness Shipyard, where the Egremont is currently stored, has announced its intention to deconstruct the ship by early February unless an alternative solution comes forward.

The MV Egremont started life in 1951 transporting people across the River Mersey between Liverpool and Seacombe and New Brighton, before arriving in Salcombe in 1976 to become the base of operations for the Salcombe Island Cruising Club.

The vessel was towed up to Sharpness Shipyard, near Gloucestershire in October 2016 for an extensive refurbishment, however work came to a stand-still a month later when it became clear the Egremont Trust would need to come up with a lot more money to complete the work she needed.

In July 2018, the fate of the ship’s mooring in Salcombe Harbour was sealed, after the Salcombe Harbour Board unanimously voted not to renew it.

The board said it hadn’t received an adequate business plan from the trust to make a renewed mooring financially viable.

Now the shipyard has made the announcement in conjunction with the Egremont Trust to deconstruct the registered historic vessel on February 4, 2019.

National Historic Ships UK said as a sizeable vessel and part-completed project, Egremont lends herself well to being repurposed as a venue for things such as water sport training, hotel accommodation, function/exhibition space or a restaurant facility.

The organisation also pointed out that with limited draught, she is ideally suited to a natural harbour or estuary.

Records for the Egremont are held by the Egremont Trust and Dartmouth Museum, which include a photographic archive and original build plans. If deconstruction goes ahead, a formal entry will be created for the ship on the National Archive of Historic Vessels.

Any interested parties wishing to make an offer for the ship or related fittings, propose a new end use or location, or provide further documentary and photographic evidence are asked to contact [email protected] as soon as possible and no later than Monday, February 4.