But, as these pictures show, the La Bergere, a 39ft yacht which sank on the Norfolk Broads, has certainly seen its sailing days ended.

The vessel has been crushed and turned to rubble following a salvage operation that cost tens of thousands of pounds.

La Bergere sank in the River Yare near the Berney Arms pub (Image: Broads Authority)

The boat foundered near the entrance to Breydon Water, close to Berney Arms, earlier this year.

A few weeks earlier, in an unrelated incident, a 66ft houseboat, Tauri, sank on the same stretch of river, two miles upstream on the Yare near to Polkey's Mill.

Both wrecks presented........

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