Launch for Jubilee Hope

Thursday December 5 2013

The third ship in the Vine Trust fleet leaves its dock on the Clyde this Saturday, bound for a new life delivering healthcare services to people in isolated communities around Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake.

The Jubilee Hope, which has been refurbished and refitted extensively by BAE Systems and The Wood Group, is presently docked at Plantation Quay, Glasgow. It will be open to the public from 11am-3pm this Saturday before being ‘waved off’ at around 3.30pm.

The Very Rev Albert Bogle, Chairman of the Vine Trust, said that the ship had some very specific alterations that The Wood Group, who have adopted the Trust as their charity for the next four years, worked on to make the journey to Lake Victoria possible.

“It’s going to sail to Mombasa and then be transported on a low loader through Kenya to Lake Victoria, where it will be reassembled and go to work. The Wood Group had to devise a way to allow the ship to ‘split’ so that it could fit under the numerous bridges over the roads. They created an ingenious way of allowing the ‘top’ of the ship to be unbolted and then fastened back together again on its arrival.

“The Vine Trust is delighted to have such a positive relationship with business and industry and that they appreciate the work we are doing.”

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