Malcolm Miller
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Malcolm Miller was a sail training ship which was built in Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....

, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 by John Lewis & Sons, shipbuilders. She was sold out of service in 2001 and renamed Helena C and currently serves as a private yacht.

History

Malcolm Miller was built in 1967, half of the construction cost being donated by Sir James Miller, a former Lord Mayor of London and Lord Provost of Edinburgh. She was named for Sir James' son Malcolm, who had been killed in a car accident. The ship was designed by Camper & Nicholson and used by the Sail Training Association as a Sail Training Ship. Malcolm Miller was a sister ship to Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill (schooner)
Sir Winston Churchill was a sail training ship which was built in Hessle, Yorkshire by Richard Dunston Ltd. She was sold out of service in 2000 and currently serves as a private yacht.-History:...

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In 2000, Malcolm Miller was replaced in service by Stavros S Niarchos
Stavros S Niarchos (ship)
The Stavros S Niarchos is a British brig-rigged tall ship owned and operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust. She is primarily designed to provide young people with the opportunity to undertake voyages as character-building exercises, rather than pure sail-training...

. In 2001, Malcolm Miller was sold and her new owners renamed her Helena C.

In June 2008 she was damaged by fire while being refurbished. As of August 2009, the ship (minus masts) was moored to a buoy in Falmouth harbour.

November 2011 Still laid up off Tolvern on the river Fal in Cornwall.
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