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During World War II, as part of the ML Flotilla, the ship served as a navigation leader in Operation Neptune, the pivotal seaborne invasion of northern France known as D-Day.
It was repurposed as a fast dispatch boat after the war, before being transferred to the UK s customs agency. By the 1970s, L1392 had been transformed into a charter vessel and renamed Sarinda.
After going through several reinventions, including being converted to a luxury motor yacht, it was decommissioned in 2013.
Gemma and Simon, who run a business building camper vans together, knew that fixing up the 80-year-old vessel, which weighs 59-tons, would cost them thousands and require a great deal of time.