National Maritime Museum, Arron Hewett, Louise Macfarlane

The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472831408
• Artikelnr.: 51294177

Autorenporträt

Written by Louise Macfarlane, Curator of the Cutty Sark and Arron Hewett, General Manager, Cutty Sark.

Inhaltsangabe

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