The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual

Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the increasing use of steamships made clippers unprofitable on shorter routes. It was turned to the trade in wool from Australia, where for ten years she held the record time for a journey to Britain. After finishing her time in service as cargo ship, and then a training and cadet ship, it was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display. This handy and illuminating pocket manual collates original documents to tell the fascinating story of how the legendary Cutty Sark was commissioned, her design and building, life on board and her notable journeys.>

Vorwort
Packed with fascinating facts and using original source material about the ship, this is a perfect introduction to the Cutty Sark.

Autorentext
Arron Hewett is General Manager of the Cutty Sark. Louise Macfarlane is Curator of the Cutty Sark.

Klappentext
Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the increasing use of steamships made clippers unprofitable on shorter routes. It was turned to the trade in wool from Australia, where for ten years she held the record time for a journey to Britain. After finishing her time in service as cargo ship, and then a training and cadet ship, it was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display. This handy and illuminating pocket manual collates original documents to tell the fascinating story of how the legendary Cutty Sark was commissioned, her design and building, life on board and her notable journeys.

Inhalt

1 Introduction
2 Building Cutty Sark
3 The First Voyages
4 Extraordinary Voyages, Part 1
5 How Ships Worked
6 Tramping: 1878-83
7 Extraordinary Voyages, Part 2
8 The Woodget Years, 1885-95
9 Life on Board
10 Cargoes
11 Sold to the Portuguese, and the End of an Era
12 Afterword

Index