HALIFAX -- Residents of a small town 250 kilometres east of Halifax are fighting to prevent the removal of a hunk of black metal that has been sitting offshore for the past 100 years. "It's just a big, rusty boiler," Rachel Langley, resident of Drum Head, N.S., said in an interview Monday. "Maybe it is an eyesore, but it means something." The boiler is an important feature of life in the community of 37 people, Langley said, adding that for years, the metal has been a point of interest for divers and fishers. The boiler is the last remaining piece of the Scotia, a steam-powered vessel that was destroyed by fire in 1921, damaging cargo worth $75,000 at the time.