New Building ?

[Alex]

I had to look twice at this photo of a ship docked today in Liverpool, I thought it looked more like a new building, they shoot up so quickly these days.

[zoony]

They're very much posh hotels afloat these days. Not too big to sink..

[Raven]

Ideal for housing refugees.

[zoony]

    That's very unkind! 

[Raven]

  That's very unkind! 

Why? 

[zoony]

Just the conjunction of my 'not too big to sink' and your 'Ideal for housing refugees'..

[Raven]

Ohhhhh OK,  I wasn't thinking of it that way. But now you come to mention it........

[GrannyMac]

Using ships as temporary accommodation, why not?

There used to be a ship docked in the Tay near Dundee that housed boys who were homeless or had been in trouble. Being sent to the 'Mars' was often used as a threat when I was growing up.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/dundee/820379/history-of-dundee-naval-training-ship-hms-mars-brought-to-life-in-new-exhibition/

[-Oy-]

Looks like an interesting ship! Just checked the map and it's gone now :(

[Raven]

Maybe the captain is a lurker on here, read this thread, said no way and scudded off. 

[Jacqueline]

Ideal for housing refugees.

Sounds good to me, send them out in the middle of the ocean until their claims are settled, then sail them back home.

[Alex]

Sounds good to me, send them out in the middle of the ocean until their claims are settled, then sail them back home.

Just imagine refurb costs after a shed load of dinghy boys have been on it a few weeks.   
I read that most Ukrainians want to stay close to their homeland and UK seems a bit far, unless they have family here of course.   I would have taken in a woman and her child + dog or cat  too old now......

[Jacqueline]

Just to clarify I was referring to the fake refugee dingy boys, not the genuine Ukranian refugees.