A sad story indeed, but slightly sadder are some elements of the way it's been reported in the newspaper. Isn't it always the same? You see in print or on TV a piece on a subject you have some knowledge of, and it's virtually guaranteed that the story will contain basic errors. In this case the reporter has been told some details of Fairmiles in general, misunderstood, and attributed it all to this surviving example. For example, Dickie of Bangor didn't build 650 examples of the Fairmile B, they built just nine, 650 was the total B production from more than 40 separate UK shipyards. Also their 'pioneering techniques', getting furniture makers to assemble frames & other components so that these could be put together in a yard like Dickie's was the way that almost all Fairmile types A, B, C, D etc were built, and the idea came from Fairmile themselves. An interesting aside is the origin of the Fairmile name, the boats were designed by Noel Macklin, a real 'Boys Own' style adventurer, who took the name 'Fairmile' from his house in Cobham, Surrey.