Osprey Publishing Home
The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual
The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual
- Delivery and returns info
-
Free CA delivery on orders $40 or over
Description
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. She was turned to the trade in wool from Australia, where for ten years she held the record time for a journey to Britain.
As steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until she was sold as a training and cadet ship, a role in which she continued until 1954 when she was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display.
The handy 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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | Feb 20 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 144 |
| ISBN | 9781472831422 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Dimensions | 180 x 120 mm |
| Series | General Military |
| Short code | GNM |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Resources
Book Vote
Tell us what titles you would like to see published by Osprey, then vote for your favourites in our monthly book vote!
Related Titles
