U-boat at Liverpool docks

THERE was a U-boat on view at Liverpool Docks over the week-end, but not a real one.

It was the one featured last year in narrowboatworld, built by Richard Williams from a narrowboat shell, and moored in Albert Dock.

Painted black instead

His original intention was to paint his boat yellow as a tribute to the Beatles' Yellow Submarine, but as the paint was so expensive he painted it black instead.

The boat, that has a periscope and dummy torpedoes made from plastic tubes, was open to visitors at the dock, who saw the special interior of the boat, and Richard takes the opportunity to tell children about the horrors of war.

He is amazed that some people believe it is a real U-boat, and hurl insults at him, and he was attacked in Wigan on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, and had a generator stolen.