Chodzio co prawda o statki rzeczne handlowe, ale
http://www.pandaw1947.com/photo-gallery.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti ... dalay.html
Burma regained its independence on January 4, 1948, and immediately became the first former British colony to sever ties with the Commonwealth. As it closed itself off from the world, the extraordinary story of the IFC was submerged like the ships themselves.
Three years ago a young Scot called Paul Strachan decided that the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company would sail again. He had learnt its history from his father and other family members who had worked on the Clyde.
Strachan charters vessels from the IFC's successor company, the Irrawaddy Water Transport Board, to cruise the river. He had originally hoped to raise and sail one or more of the original pre-war craft but the cost of restoration proved prohibitive. It looked as though he would have to settle for resurrecting the company's name until he discovered the Pandaw, built in 1948 at the Yarrow yard in Glasgow as one of eight ships designed to help the Burmese get post-war transport moving again on the Irrawaddy.
The Pandaw is now undergoing extensive refurbishment with the assistance of Yarrow's Shipyard, which supplied the original plans. It will become the modern IFC's first original vessel later this year.
