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Last hopes sink for Carrick

It is a vessel brimming with history but one which can no longer bear the weight of the past. After staying afloat against many small deaths, the world's oldest surviving clipper has been been dealt a final, dark fate.

IT is a vessel brimming with history but one which can no longer bear the weight of the past. After staying afloat against many small deaths, the world's oldest surviving clipper has been been dealt a final, dark fate.