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Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
Alan John Villiers, DSC (23 September 1903 – 3 March 1982) was a writer, adventurer, photographer and mariner.. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Villiers first went to sea at age 15 and sailed on board traditionally rigged vessels, including the full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad.
A race ensued between the two "hounds of the seas". Moving south of New Zealand, the Cutty Sark nearly capsized. The big test for sailing ships was to pass Cape Horn, [3] which the Cutty Sark rounded after 23 days of sailing. The ship headed for London, covering approximately 300 miles a day. As a result, the Cutty Sark set the Sydney-London ...
Cutty Sark is the only (accidentally) three-masted composite tea clipper that has survived to this day, and therefore the world's most famous representative of the magnificent galaxy of sailing clippers, the Hounds of the Ocean. In proportions, design and size, the ship is close to the unsurpassed racer — the clipper 'Thermopylae. Clipper ...
In 1826, he started his own ship owning company, registered in London. [4] The younger Jock Willis (1817–1899), himself a ship master, took over his father's firm of ship owners. Also known as 'White Hat Willis', it was during his time that the company built and owned clippers like Cutty Sark. [6]
An extreme composite clipper ship built by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London for the White Star Line of Aberdeen. Windhover — 1868 United Kingdom (Glasgow) Wrecked in 1889 201.1 ft (61.3 m) Ambassador: 1869 United Kingdom (London) Abandoned in 1895 176 ft (54 m) Cutty Sark: 1869 United Kingdom
Hercules Linton. Hercules Linton (1 January 1837 [1] – 15 May 1900) was a Scottish surveyor, designer, shipbuilder, antiquarian and local councillor, best known as the designer of the Cutty Sark and partner in the yard of Scott and Linton, which built her.
The Cutty Sark and Thermopylae Era of Sail. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, 1987 (hardcover, ISBN 0-85174-500-8). Matheson, Marny. Clippers for the record: The story of ship Thermopylae, S.S. Aberdeen, and Captain Charles Matheson. Melbourne: Spectrum, 1984 (ISBN 0-86786-051-0). Crosse, John; Thermopylae and the Age of Clippers. Historian ...