Abandoned Cruise Ship Arcade Machines
The Duke of Lancaster a vast 4000 ton cruise liner lays beached on a river bank.
Abandoned cruise ship arcade machines. The Duke of Lancasters last voyage was in 1978 it was then beached at Llanerch-y-Mor in Flintshire in 1979 - and it has sat there ever since. The most notorious recent example of a buoyancy-challenged large passenger liner is the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia which struck a reef and partially sank on January 13th 2012 off the coast of Italys Isola del Giglio. One of the plans for The Fun Ship was an amusements arcade covering an entire deck.
TSS Duke Of Lancaster An Abandoned Ship in Wales. The disaster cost 32 lives with 2 people still officially missing and roughly 500 million the latter figure. In 2012 several local arcade game collectors made a deal with Solitaire Liverpool Ltd and purchased most of the coin-operated machines at the time The Fun Ship closed.
It turns out The Duke of Lancaster was hiding over 50 arcade machines from the golden era which had been sealed shut inside for years. It hit an uncharted reef in the sandfly passage Solomon Islands 29. What this meant was that amongst all its other other inventory over 50 arcade machines from the golden era were sealed shut inside the ship.
Over time the derelict ship started to rust and became largely forgotten about known only to locals as the beached ship by the coast. It turns out The Duke of Lancaster was hiding over 50 arcade machines from the 80s which had been sealed shut inside for years. I might grab a round or two on Gravitar.
The creepy pictures were taken by an urban explorer known as Abandoned Southeast aboard the casino cruise ship Casino Royale. One of the plans for The Fun Ship was an amusements arcade covering an entire deck. Click Images to Large View Abandoned Virtua Racing Arcade Machine Abandoned Kansai Tokyos Abandoned Themed Arcade Youtube Click Images to Large View Tokyos Abandoned Themed Arcade Youtube.
It became an arcade for a brief period before finally becoming abandoned. So when it closed over 50 arcade machines from. But for me its more about the preservation and documentation of the history of the machines.
