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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.
Seventy years after Cutty Sark made its final voyage, historians are now looking to hear from anyone who remembers the day it was towed into its final location. The British tea clipper ship was ...
The Cutty Sark Preservation Society was formed 2 years prior to the reconstruction of the Cutty Sark in 1952. The feedback from English-speaking readers forced Yefremov to "upgrade" the storyline with some new facts from clipper's life. [1] The story popularized the Cutty Sark in the USSR and Russia.
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
Cutty Sark was eventually launched on 22 November 1869, nearly five months late, by Captain Moodie's wife. Cutty Sark was then moved to Denny's yard on the other side of the River Leven to have her masts installed and on 20 December towed down the River Clyde to Greenock to have a specialist firm install her running rigging.
The clipper ships bound for Australia and New Zealand would call at a variety of ports. A ship sailing from Plymouth to Sydney, for example, would cover around 13,750 miles (22,130 km). A fast time for that passage would be around 100 days. [6] Cutty Sark made the fastest passage on that route by a clipper: 72 days. [7]
Over one half of the crew of each ship participating in the races must consist of young people. Between 1973 and 2003 the races were known as The Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races, having been sponsored by Cutty Sark whisky. From 2004 to 2010 the races were supported by the City, Province and Port of Antwerp.