I was lucky enough to visit The cutty Sark a couple years ago.... I still have my Cutty Sark crew mug I bought there, I drink tea in it everyday :-)

@WillN2Go1

Жыл бұрын

I would advise learning as much as possible before anyone visits the Cutty Sark, otherwise it may just seem like a big warehouse with a low ceiling. (And I built the model as a kid.) And when you walk over to the Greenwich Observatory and look at your iPhone, you won't be on 0° 0' 0" longitude, that's over in some trees on your right (as you look north). This is because the North American Geoid used for GPS is just a bit different from the one Europe uses. This really puzzled me. Google and Apple Maps work out just fine. All this is worth a visit. And don't forget Drake's ship, the Golden Hind to the west. (Somehow I missed it.)

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

@@WillN2Go1 I hope you get to board The Golden Hind and that you don't live to far away from it!! Queen Elizabeth and her English Privateers! How many times they saved England's "bacon"!🧭💰

@scottkleyla7752

Жыл бұрын

Very good mate,more grog please!

My Dad was an aerospace engineer at Honeywell. On his lunch breaks he would work on a plastic model of the Cutty Sark. Very meticulously hand tying the rat lines, painting faces on figures that were only three quarters of an inch tall. Making cloth sails instead of using the plastic sails molded into shape by some mold maker. After seventeen years of designing and working the kinks out of re-entry control systems for ICBM's, the Apollo space program, and other military projects, Honeywell fired him. He never really finished the Sark because he had to try to reinvent his career and had no time or need for the distraction of working with his hands.

@ericeaklor1300

Жыл бұрын

Bummer

@robertbolding4182

Жыл бұрын

Should have made it to management

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

Did they let him go during the 70s or 80s? My Dad was in constant dread of being let go with that horrid,pink slip!! Sorry for your Dad. It sounds like it killed part of him.💔❤️‍🩹🕊️

@lindajohnson4204

Жыл бұрын

My dad had that model. He loved the _Cutty Sark,_ because he had seen it when he was about four, and his family lived in Charleston, SC, during its decommissioning cruise. He fell in love, and always dreamed about sailing, but I don't know that he ever had an opportunity to as much as take a short sail on a small sailboat. But "Adventures in Paradise" was his dream, a schooner instead of a big ship like the Cutty Sark. He was a little ashamed that he wasn't creating his own wooden model, but he had that big plastic model, and enjoyed it so much. I don't have much space for storing things, and the last I heard, my cousin was storing it for me, so we need to talk! And my dad was no engineer, but he worked in the space program from 1957-61, for Pan American at Patrick AFB in Satellite Beach, FL, near the Cape. He had his own problems with the program, and although he didn't get fired, he was "through". (I remember him ruefully joking at the drive-in during the movie, __The Apartment,_ I believe it was, that Bud was in "procurement" like he was at Pan Am, and he understood his problem completely. So . . . the corporations, etc!)

@lindajohnson4204

Жыл бұрын

Well, I guess 1920 was not her decommissioning cruise. The video says that would be 1954. But it visited Charleston about 1920!

One of the best Doc's that i've seen in a while. I love that old footage, this is a "Top of the Line" Doc, I saw the "Tall ships" in 76 as they approached Boston harbor and the "City of Sin", at first, all you could see was a few topsails then more topsails and more and more until they filled the entire horizon and still, you couldn't see any BOATS! it took at least a half hour before you could. It was beautiful. Wild should wild remain.

@scottkleyla7752

Жыл бұрын

36nm horizon lookout detail.

Almost 60 years ago I lived in Blackheath, just above Greenwhich were the Cutty Sark was in dry dock. As kids we went on it many, many times and also saw the Gypsy Moth beside it. This brought back great memories for me, and I learned a ton more about its history. Thanks for putting this together, well done.

@klnine

Жыл бұрын

Did you know these were really opium ships

@scottkleyla7752

Жыл бұрын

Oh boy, a true buckaneer were you!

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

Жыл бұрын

@@klnine Not Gypsy Moth, nor I think Cutty Sark but I could be wrong. The Scottish shipyards were not too particular about building fast ships for slave-traders, either!

@Simon-xc6iy

Жыл бұрын

Hi, I lived in camberwell in the 60s and 70s and was a Bermondsey Sea Cadet. I worked on the Cutty Sark 76 and 77. I got taken on as a neighbour was Commander Leget who was part of the Cutty Sark society. The captain was Captain Reed.

@arktseytlin

Жыл бұрын

Mark Knopfler has a great song about all that: "Single Handed Sailor"

I have fond memories of visiting this ship with my dad in Greenwich in the 80s

The Cutty Sark "once sailed 2,163 nautical miles in six days, for an average speed of just over 15 knots." The clippers on a good day averaged 10-11 knots. (11.5 to 13 mph 18.5 - 20 km/h)). "99 days" to do the 14,000 m route is an average of 5.9 knots. Most of the main clipper routes were east to west, this is because the trade winds influenced by the Coriolis effect go north of the Equator, north east to west, and south of it, south east to west. (I never thought about this until I learned to sail and started looking at routes. My boat is 45' sails easy at 5-7 knots, under power 6 knots, 1 gallon/hour, so range 900 nMiles before I'd need to refuel. At 6.7 knots fuel consumption doubles so range of only 450 nMiles. 75 hours verses 67 hours, double the fuel cost for a ten percent gain in time. Same with the wind. A lot more wind for a sailboat is not a lot more speed, but it is a lot more force and wear on the sails and rigging. )

@eduardomalveiropereiraleit4705

Жыл бұрын

Great, i didn t know also, thank you

@scottkleyla7752

Жыл бұрын

A rig well kept is hard to maintain. USS Ticonderoga CG-47

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

Жыл бұрын

If your vessel does not plane, like the racing "Flying Dutchman", your top speed is pretty much limited by the square root of your waterline length. It turns out that although the wind power varies as the cube of the windspeed, both sail and the windmill devices they inaccurately call "wind turbines" have to present less area to the wind as it rises. From about half of the rated full power these whirlygigs angle their blades so that at about 12 m/s/s (27 mph) they are using about a quarter of the wind.

@davy1458

Жыл бұрын

Can I sail around the world with you.

A great account of American sailing ships (clippers included) was written by Carl Cutler. It is a chronological discussion of ship building techniques from about 1760 - 1860. It details the rivalry of competition between the various builders and the results of numerous races. It mentions the races between US and British ships in the tea trade. I recommend it to anyone who has the time to read it.Titled "Greyhounds of the Sea".

@truesdel

Жыл бұрын

I thoroughly agree that this is a must-read book!

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for alerting us to this book!🤗💗👍

A wonderfully romantic presentation of the golden age of the Clipper Ships, bravo!

The best video on KZread is from a man who filmed his journey on a massive sailing cargo ship sailing from Germany around South America and up to Chile. He narrated his film and someone converted it to digital and posted it on KZread. The things he describes and shows are a fascinating look into life at sea for sailors in the early 1900s, just before steam replaced sail power. Describing the Captain's dog and how he'd bite at slow men, showing the captain cutting sailors hair, so many little things. It's the best video on KZread, this video being a close 2nd!

@kevineleven5610

Жыл бұрын

Would love to see that , do you have any other information?

@t.c.bramblett617

Ай бұрын

Any link?

Around South America and the Falkland Islands are many clipper hulls that failed the Horn, still there, and beaches covered in some of their cargoes. Some hulls still afloat.

@scottkleyla7752

Жыл бұрын

Did you chart keep navigation? I never charted the horn unfortunatly.

Always and forever, my favorite sailing ship. May she sail forever in our imaginations!

@rodneycaupp5962

Жыл бұрын

The USS Harwood, DD861 did it for me..., "No Imagination Needed". Two storm seasons running, we were told "goodbye by Navy / Coast Guard", In the Atlantic, and Mediterranean Seas. Third Year in a row, a heavy Russian Attack in Mediteranian Sea, all but ended our days, with 750 women and children aboard USS Puget Sound/ AD38. 125 + wounded women and Children..., >>>>> You Never heard about it. I hurt a woman and a little child with my M1 rifle, in a pitch black passageway. Mag Pulsed, we were without power. I also ran the children's movie theater when not responding to That Nuke Alert. "Very sad seeing those civilians in such terror", and the Battle wound dressings. TRUE STORY.

Strange, I don't see comments from people without culture, arrogant and primitive. How beautiful it is to communicate between real Westerners😃

What a time of skill, courage and daring. Thanks for making this film

Seven clippers had a moonraker sail, so rare the word rarely even makes it into dictionaries.

@andyharman3022

Жыл бұрын

But was the title of a Bond movie.

To put these brilliant feats of engineering into perspective, although a windjammer rather than a clipper, the largest sail powered cargo ship called the Preußen crashed because a coastal steam ship doing a channel crossing saw her on the horizon, thought she was a slow sailing ship, and started crossing her bow. Preußen was actually travelling at 16 Knots - and that wasn't even full sail! Sadly, it led to the loss of Preußen as she lost her fore topmast and bowsprit (she was wrecked in ensuing storms as she couldn't manoeuvre) and the steamer was heavily damaged. But it just goes to prove the efficiency and speed of these huge ships - not much smaller than coastal bulk carriers today.

@greggweber9967

Жыл бұрын

I remember the first time I saw a flying 747. It almost looked like it was floating. I wonder if size wasn't a problem to the steam ship Captain.

@sunnyland3952

Жыл бұрын

It was a very negligent captain. When you see another ship you track it, and if it stays at the same point of the compass, you will collide. It's simple and basic, and it's fundamental navigation. The Preussen clearly made the same mistake. A sailing ship has the right of way over a motor ship by maritime rules, but that does not mean you should be silly, and a sailing ship can turn pretty sharpish if the crew is ready.

@greggweber9967

Жыл бұрын

@Sunnyland 39 A joke: a sailor in a taxi saw an approaching collision. Yelled out "zero bearing drift" but the driver didn't understand. Which direction is positive, and which is negative?

@sunnyland3952

Жыл бұрын

@@greggweber9967 Up, up, and away, is the only positive direction !

Purely inspirational. Oh the. Human spirit

Brilliant video. What sparked my interest was one of my ancestors was Captain of an East Indiaman in the late 18th century, these ships are at the end of his journey. Starting with the Portuguese explorers such as Vasco De Gama and Bartholomeum Diaz opening up long distance sea travel. All fascinating stuff, history that massively helped the prosperity of Europe and the whole world.

@sunnyland3952

Жыл бұрын

More correctly, properly, it would be to say, massively enriched Europe and extracted wealth from the rest, leaving great civilisations empoverished.

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

This video/ film sure has opened a world of interesting facts and personal and related story histories!!!💯👍

You go to sea in a boat you don't love, she will shake you off like the changing of the worlds.

My claim to fame is ‘I trained on the Cutty Sark’. The fact that she rested on concrete at Greenwich and it was a navigation class with the Frobisher Institute, I do not disclose.

I can imagine seeing any of these ships under sail with “royals”, must have been breathtakingly stunning.

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

Жыл бұрын

For top speed, they need a faster wind, and I therefore presume LESS sail!

43:30 Bless you ol boy paying respect to who filled your belly..... #cutty ⚓❤️🦘🙏❤️🙌

I love sailing vessels of all kinds, but clipper ships - oh, my goodness! I believe they're the most beautiful objects EVER made by humans.

A splendid documentary. I found Moshulu on Amsterdam, in 1970. I was on SS Chusan, in the Band at the time. I, the ships photographer, and our Drummer climbed on board. I always carried, " Eric Newby's Last Grain Race on my travels. I would have loved to have met him.

Brilliant film, thanks for sharing 👍

Wonderful video! Thank you so much for showing it!

Wow! The tea races!

The book "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana is set earlier than this in the 19th century. But it is an enchanting tale of the voyage from Boston to California, and back again. It is well before the California Gold Rush and I recommend it to all who enjoyed this video about clipper ships.

Wow, what a wonderful job on this. Thank you!

I'm an engineer and a sailor. A sail is a vertical wing. The top side of an airplane wing is the same as the back side of a sail. And like an airplane wing, there's a low pressure system above the wing, or on the back side of the sail. When a sailboat is beating to windward, between the low pressure system on the back side of the sail, and the keel preventing the boat from moving downwind, that low pressure system is actually sucking the sailboat forward from the back side of the sail, pretty crazy! That's not what's happening when going downwind though, that's just wind pushing on the sails. And that's why boats can go faster on a close reach than they can going straight downwind. Sailboats and sailing are magical. It's pure magic how a huge heavy boat can go so fast with just sails.

A Scot I knew, Stewart, in Northern Territory of Australia in 1970, (I think) sailed on Endeavor II and was ship wrecked off of New Zealand. He then wrote that he managed to get on a crew of a merchant ship bound back for UK. Another friend told me that Stewart managed to go from Australia back to UK for $38 which would have fit his personality.

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

I would dare to venture that it was " for the principle of it"! To go back for it!! He sure Endeavoured!!😉

@formerparatrooper

Жыл бұрын

@@lorenheard2561 No doubt in my mind, him being a Scotsman. He was tighter than a Pullman window when we knew him at the construction site. He did not buy soap but went around the showers and collected the small pieces of bars left and had them in a bag. My wife and I had a Harley Davidson that we toured the globe with in the early 70s. When we stopped in England somewhere people would ask, "Awe fast she goes then?" when we crossed over into Scotland, I tell you the truth, the question would inevitably be "Awe much she cost then?" Marvelous memories writing this morning. Thank you.

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

@@formerparatrooper That Is Hysterically funny!!!😂🤣He must have been able to save things to use to fix we wouldn't even think of!!

...the art of building and racing those magnificent clippers in order to enjoy the art of tea drinking." In France the celebrated in a rather similar way the art of exporting and sipping the "Primeur" wine.

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

Which "warms" you different than tea!😁🍾/🫖

Well done ! Thank you :)

I've been through two typhoons in the South China Sea on an LST (USS Cayuga LST 1186). I can't imagine going through that on a wooden ship with canvas engines.

The great era of sailing, here wooden ships and iron men ruled the waves. A time or great adventures and incredible courage.

All ya killing it into the forties with sail... Huzzah!!

As a Greenwich resident, I found this very interesting given I spent so much time visiting the "Cutty Sark" as a kid.

@lindajohnson4204

Жыл бұрын

Would you happen to know, was the Cutty Sark on display during WWII? I doubt you were around, then, but my dad loved the Cutty Sark, from seeing it at 4 years old in Charleston, SC, during its decommissioning cruise. And I am embarrassed, but I don't remember for sure whether he was able to visit it when he was stationed in England with the 8th Air Force. He loved England, and visited quite a few regions, and really loved London, but the story of what he was able to do about the Cutty Sark is really vague now.

@TREVORALLMAN

Жыл бұрын

@@lindajohnson4204 Hi Linda, the "Cutty Sark" was used as a training ship on the River Thames at Greenhithe during WW2, before being moved into the dry dock at Greenwich in 1954, so it is not beyond the realms of possibility that your dad may have visited it whilst stationed here.

@lindajohnson4204

Жыл бұрын

@@TREVORALLMAN Thank you, Trevor! He was based at a little airstrip in Aintree, near Liverpool, but on his time off, he loved to travel all over England, Scotland and Wales. He especially loved London, and he lived the British people. I'm thinking that what you said may sound like what he told me, but he's been gone a long time, since 1975. He would be 106 years old if he'd lived. That's unbelievable to me, a lot more so than being 70 myself. Today would have been my mom's 99th birthday. Just incredible, although perfectly realistic. After he thought he'd seen, not all, but a lot of those three countries, he and his B-24's navigator decided to chance a ferry ride to Ireland, because they didn't want to go home without seeing Ireland! They were picked up as soon as they got off the ferry, returned, and "busted back to private". In a couple of days, their previous ranks were restored, but not without that blot on their records. They never tried anything like that, again, and, of course, they did not hold it against the Army Air Corps that they were caught and punished. He understood that Ireland had made itself an enemy country. But they had just wanted to see it; after all, it's Ireland! A shame to go home without seeing it. Thank you, again, for the information, and thank you for the opportunity to talk about my dad.

@TREVORALLMAN

Жыл бұрын

@@lindajohnson4204 It was interesting to read about your dad's experience.

New subscriber here, I love things of this sort, please keep up the good work !!!

Ahh When men were men. Done a bit of sailing, Deckhanding, steamships Etc... one of if not the best times of my youth, ports of call, Santo Domingo, Curaçao, Barbados, Aruba, Bonaire, St Vincent. Kudos to all The Great Clippers and Men of these ships.

The Roaring Fourties have a reputation. If you have no idea how a storm looks like in the Fourties, I can tell you this. Henk de Velde is a Dutch catamaran sailor, who did a number of attempts to break the world record around the world singlehanded. And he happened to be professional captain. That is important, for in one of his books he wrote about a terrible storm. Braking waves of an enormous height, not just local, but all the way to the horizon, in all directions. When men like De Velde admit that this was scary, a couple of days steering by hand, no longer relying on the excellent autopilots, you bet the Roaring Fourties or even the Furious Fifties can be very very dangerous. Waves can go around the world without any coast breaking them down. Brrrrrr.

I have no fear of heights. It's more the depth that I don't like.. ;-) Thank you very much for sharing this wonderful vid, appreciate it a lot 👍 Greets from the Netherlands 🇳🇱, T.

So fascinating ❤

In the 1970s, a 3 foot model of mine was seeing for $200.00 The Sark has a history book that came in the kit...all for only $25.00 "She" was grand with HER copper clad Hull! Scotch and Bourbon were HER cargos. Gentlemen: I'm 66...and I've been wanting to get back into the business since the 1980s. The x-acto kits are no longer $12.00 The paints are very difficult to purchase. I learned wood-working. And basic electricity. Lit Cabinets, gold-leaf for Her Name Plate. Michigan and her being The Great Lake State...I know Ships and Shipping. Now? I'd "model-up" for $3,000. As soon as I complete two projects...I can retire making models again. You inspired me...but, seeing the mighty Clipper again?...it's a done deal. (It did'nt take much...I never DID let go. She was always there.) ty

I built a large model of the Thermopylae when I was a kid (early 1960s)

Greenwich and the Museum - walked between the two long rows of Bow Spirits! Truly Memorable!

The ship sinking at 8:34 appears to be the topsail schooner SMS Ayesha, the ship commandeered by the landing party of the German cruiser SMS Emden when the Emden was sunk by HMAS Sydney in WWI. The journey of the landing party is one of the great sagas of WWI.

This was the best and hardest model that I put together as a teen.

Loved to sail!!!…..Nothing more said……

I love Cutty Sark! Especially by the case. 🤣🤣🥃👍

I read this book by eric newby, it is one of the most suspensefull real life accounts I ever read

That was so exciting ! What tame, dull lives we lead nowadays, compared to the lives lived by those sailors.

@sparky6086

Жыл бұрын

As long as there wasn't any toxic masculinity, I suppose clipper ships are okay...

@bruceweber2361

Жыл бұрын

@@sparky6086 God bless toxic masculinity. If not for it, the world would be ruled by cunts such as yourself..

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

Жыл бұрын

You perhaps know of the Chinese curse "May you live in interesting times!"

@sparky6086

Жыл бұрын

@@bruceweber2361 Sarcasm Alert. ...Lighten up & develop a sense of humor. You & the people around you, will be better all the better for it.

@bruceweber2361

Жыл бұрын

@@sparky6086 Hah ! You got me there. Will do.

Have a look for capt Wallace cutty sark. He was my father's mother's brother. Jumped over board off java after getting becalmed. that was all the story I was told as a boy. The whole story is much more. The first mate, a bully be all accounts, murdered one of the deck hands and was in the brig but was let go by Wallace. I would love to read the captains log from that voyage. Ate such things a matter of record somewhere.

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

,"jumped over board"!? Did he just leave and swim to the Island or did he drown!!☹️You're British?...Scottish? Hope you don't mind that I ask?🙂

@kevinjamesdawes7223

Жыл бұрын

@@lorenheard2561 he drowned that much is a matter of record as is the murder. There must best logs if voyages kept somewhere especially with the events of this one. My father's family was southshields my mum was Scottish

@kevinjamesdawes7223

Жыл бұрын

@@lorenheard2561 it was recorded as suicide

My family tree shows that I had two GT GT GT Grandfathers who sailed on the Cutty Sark, one was the cook George Cunningham and the other Captain Woodgate, I have never visited the Ship Yet I am now 77 years of age and I would like to go one day

that was good info

excellent content

The Cutty Sark isn't the only extant clipper ship from that era. The Moshula remains docked in Philadelphia. It houses museum areas and a fine restaurant.

@gingertom56

Жыл бұрын

The Thermopylae was the fast over all of her trip Cutty Sark one one race. I have a beautiful model of Thermopylae built by my grandfather. Made everthing the bell down ever link of the anchor chain.

@Bbbuddy

Жыл бұрын

Moshulu is from 1905, much more recent than Cutty Sark. A closer example is Star of India (1863), now in San Diego.

@lucabrasi5070

Жыл бұрын

@@Bbbuddy it was originally named Kurt

The fastest clipper did an average of 6.6 knots per hour in the tea race. Any ole steamship does an average of 8 to 16 knots. Modern cruise ships routinely do 20 to 23 knots per hour. The doldrums, prevailing headwinds, and the necessity to tack (sail zigzaggingly) significantly reduced the average.

@HeavyEquipmentOperator

Жыл бұрын

"knots per hour" - that was funny. :)

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

Жыл бұрын

@@HeavyEquipmentOperator It'd be a measure of acceleration!

@HeavyEquipmentOperator

Жыл бұрын

@@jacksimpson-rogers1069 It sure would! Maybe that's the kind of acceleration the Millennium Falcon needed in the Kessel run. :)

I wish that, I'd sailed the darkened seas, On a great big Clipper ship, Going from this land here to that, Oh, in a sailor's suit and cap; Away from the big city, Where a man cannot be free, Of all of the evils of this town, And of himself and those around. Oh, and i guess that, I just don't know. (From "Heroin", by the The Velvet Underground)

@MacFinn-wp2vn

Жыл бұрын

Linger on, her pale blue eyes.

So let's lift our glasses to the captains and crews of the Cutty Sark! Cheers!

I'm from Boston, we know all about tea.😉

@sunnyland3952

Жыл бұрын

They shipped it across, only for it to be dumped in the harbour ....

@lorenheard2561

Жыл бұрын

Biggest Tea-Pot EVER!!🥰👍💯What A PARTY!!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@jeffreym.keilen1095

Жыл бұрын

Constitution, my brother. Constitution.

@SleepDeprived002

Жыл бұрын

Y’all’s harbor must be pretty sal-tea huh?

@HappytubsDoncaster

Жыл бұрын

You still owe us the tax 🇬🇧

I learnt a much shorter version of this story on a school trip to see the cutty sark. I was not expecting much from this documentary but added a lot to what I learned 55 years ago.

@AndrewLohmannKent

Жыл бұрын

I met an old guy in hospital in the early 80s who had sailed on sailing ships he wrote a book that was passed around the ward and he told story's of bullets hit the side of ship sounding like hammers hitting the ship and contraband carried.

@AndrewLohmannKent

Жыл бұрын

Later a found out my anties father also worked on sailing ships, sadly he drank much of his wages.

A good book on clipper ships is Sam Jefferson’s clipper ships and the golden age of sail. It’s the only clipper ship book I need to study them

@nomadictraveller8580

10 ай бұрын

I also use sailboat racing books to help study them.

Newby’s book is on my shelf. Still a great read. For a great first hand video lecture, check out Irving Johnson’s account of a voyage on Peking in, I think, 1924.

Did Clavell's Asian Saga send anyone else here? Just imagine the story he could have weaved with this tea clipper history providing the wind. Ah, to read how Tess and Gornt humbled Brock and his whelp . . .

Would have liked more about the fire and the restoration and the current appearance

"The Cutty Sark was one of the fastest sailing ships that has ever been built. The only other ship to match her was the Thermopylae. Both these ships set out from Shanghai on June 18th, 1872 on an exciting race to England. This race, which went on for exactly four months, was the last of is kind. It marked the end of the great tradition of ships with sails and beginning of a new era. " From my 50 years old English textbook "new concept English".😀

Her home port was Newport RI way back in early 70s...

Great topic, some great content. One negative point: seems like some of the material or chronology is repeated to stretch this documentary into filling a larger time-slot than it was meant for.

Apart from a brief mention of entire ships going missing in storms, there are many statements in the narration about how dangerous it was being aloft in a Clipper ship. Oddly, not one report of the death of a sailor falling from the rigging. It's hard to believe that in nearly a century no sailors were killed in this fashion; did they not report such accidents? There's something amiss here.

If this compares to the Cutty Sark model kit I crafted together I should be able to pass the nautical captains exams of mast riggings,sails,stays and features recognized by the master of command,I failed in Puerto Rico,Cuba,Spain,France and Germany to pass that Admiralty level of knowlege,wish to try again for GP.INDIANA U.S.A.2023

One third of the way through, and barely a mention of the TEA CHEST. An invention Marvel of shipping. Nice history but no mention of the liqueur in her bilges? Around 50 minutes it is padded by a start over.

Aye ! When ships were made of wood and men were made of steel !

They foundv a clipper ship on the bottom of the indian ocean when looking for Malaysia Airliner. Just from the echo sound you could tell what she was.

The crew did not receive good pay or food fit to eat . Also their lives had little value. The captain ruled over them as a king . They would not take down the sails until it was absolutely necessary, with no regard to crew safety . Being up high in the sails in a storm was scary. Four hours on and off with full crew pressed into service frequently.

@sunnyland3952

Жыл бұрын

Pressganging was for the navy. Yes, it was a tough life, but farming and fishing, not to say mining, were tough as well. Danger .... I was told many years ago that in small Denmark there occurred a serious incident in hotel kitchens at a rate of one a day (averaged, of course). What do you think of motorcycle couriers .... cold, wet, not very well paid after the initial boom, and everpresent risk.

@sunnyland3952

Жыл бұрын

I have since learnt that commercial freighters also use to press people into service, at least when in foreign ports.

Can someone please inlighten me what is the difference between tea coming on the first and second ship? First ship tea tasted better???

Lovely video 📹 ❤

@Godwinpounds4333

Жыл бұрын

Hello how are you doing?

@BRIDGETTWC

Жыл бұрын

@@Godwinpounds4333 I'm sorry where you talking to me?

@Godwinpounds4333

Жыл бұрын

@@BRIDGETTWC Yes dear you’re such a beautiful lady, please forgive my manners for intruding into your comment. Where are you texting from?

@BRIDGETTWC

Жыл бұрын

@@Godwinpounds4333 Thank you for the compliment and I am texting from, California Where are you from?

@Godwinpounds4333

Жыл бұрын

@@BRIDGETTWC it’s nice meeting with you here. I’m from Florida. How’s the weather condition over there?

My gosh!!!

@yaad2226

Жыл бұрын

yo mama love ship

The vessel mentioned in the first few minutes is now a restaurant docked in Philadelphia.

Oh, heavens, I once took a summer vacation as one of the amateur "crew" of a schooner that had been built to catch fish, and was now a vessel intended for the 'educational' entertainment of ourselves. We did learn a lot. But it would take sterner stuff for me to climb up and out to reef a skysail on a clipper! Alas, steamships ousted the Tall Ships. What level of inattention allows people to think anything other than nuclear can oust coal and fossil hydrocarbons? Note that "natural gas" is mostly methane, whose formula can be called Carbon TetraHydride.

My Grandfather was born in the Cutty Sark age, joined the Navy at 13, (Two years before he was eligible.) served 42 years before he was retired. He, and his best mate (Dusty) had houses built, side by side, not far from HMS Ganges, their navy training school, in Shotley. They named their houses Cutty Sark, and Miranda. Miranda was a sister ship to the Cutty Sark. He had three ambitions, to own his own car, his own house, and to live to Threescore and Ten! He achieved all three, and died a few months after his 70th birthday. During his life in the Navy, his diet contained a lot of salted meat, as there was no refrigeration, and this made him very sick in his old age. Although when he joined the Navy, steam ships were very common, the recruits were trained on tall sails as well. The mast he trained on is still visible in the now derelict training school, here; www.google.com/maps/@51.9577972,1.2700634,3a,55.8y,91.89h,90.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sHSluQKDSIgGlb2ayV0H_Vw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 There's a museum nearby dedicated to the school, here; www.google.com/maps/@51.9565798,1.2749111,3a,51.6y,55.57h,86.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3BaMwBc-PT0dx7GzzgU8Uw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Only the administrative buildings, and the Officers quarters remain. The recruits quarters were wooden huts, fell apart, and long ago demolished. Here's a picture of the mast in use; www.google.com/maps/place/HMS+Ganges+Association+Museum/@51.9567242,1.2753746,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipMR3zcfbqeSsXTbP6YKy-HwtPH6AeGbp4oY2Zpf!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipMR3zcfbqeSsXTbP6YKy-HwtPH6AeGbp4oY2Zpf%3Dw203-h118-k-no!7i1260!8i734!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x47d975d38f3a6b15:0xedbd99f20692854e!2sShotley,+Ipswich+IP9+1PB,+UK!3b1!8m2!3d51.969615!4d1.253411!16zL20vMGZqN3lm!3m5!1s0x47d975a1b9473a61:0x3b86b7a7c8e36ba9!8m2!3d51.9567242!4d1.2753746!16s%2Fg%2F1v8kzwkc# The senior man of each entry had to stand on the very top position on their pass-out ceremony. .

Gee, rudder problems at sea are the worst thing that can happen. Even on a small yacht. That is why rudders are always very strong, and preferably placed out of harms way. Running aground? Many rudders will survive! And when things go wrong, improvising a jury rudder is not easy. You might need three strong men handling it. You will probably need to reduce your sail surface, which means you will sail slower. Do you have enough food onboard, going go the nearby port? Do you see the implications?

Excellent documentary, just consider this ,no GPS, no digital navigational systems, no computers, no radio or satellite communications, no Autocad or 3d printers, and yet look at all that they achieved.

Great video. I didn't hear any mention of the clipper's original purpose: running opium.

@leahwalker2563

Жыл бұрын

The Cutty Sark had nothing to do with the Opium war as it wasn't even built at that time, America also smuggled opium from 1800 to 1840 so look elsewhere to get your Heroin fix.

@jamiedyercville

Жыл бұрын

@@leahwalker2563 The Great Clippers were all about opium smuggling. It's a Google away.

@mikemines2931

Жыл бұрын

@@jamiedyercville Ah Google, it must be true.

The latter day clippers were off keel They became more and more off keel over the decades. They became death traps the sailors jumped at the first port. 1800 was about the last seaworthy design for clippers. If they could have built on keel they would have seen the better speed and rudder control of the on keel design.

Real good story. The crossover of time periods had me confused. Not exactly chronological.

I think sailing around Cape Horn westbound is a much greater challenge than Eastbound.

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

Жыл бұрын

If my memory serves me correctly, the Balclutha, in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, has an account of a particularly difficult encounter with the winds of Cape Horn. She was built in Scotland.

Greetings Ladies & Gentlemen, do you know where I can buy quality small scale replicas of ships like Cutty Sark , Queen Anne's Revenge Santa Maria etc.? I do model photography but cannot find realistic & detailed smaller scale ships in the 12 " range.There are many fine companies building larger versions but my table top studio requires something like a 12 " - 18 " version. I have had great success with cars and historic aircraft and would like to put one into a stormy sea and implement other ideas . There are DIY models but I feel better letting professionals make the ship and I can do photography. I appreciate any insights you may have , Clear skies to you. It is best if the replica can be removed from its stand to be placed in different scenes.

top speeds of the clippers were faster than our modern day shipping by a large margin.

@jameskirk7762

Жыл бұрын

Sorry but no . Modern container und ships do between 15 and 20 knots. They can go faster but mostley dont for full economy. Greetings from Germany.

@j121212100

Жыл бұрын

@@jameskirk7762 like i said they are faster.

@jacksimpson-rogers1069

Жыл бұрын

The top speed of any ship supported by displacement (i.e. floating) is determined by the Froude number. It is proportional to the square root of the displacement length. There is no way that a clipper ship can equal the speed possible for a bloody great aircraft carrier, or even the liners QE2 and "United States". I'd love to see some super-wealthy person buy SS United States and replace its propulsion engines, which had a power of 180 MW, with a super-modern Molten Salt Reactor scheme. There's an American company, Thorcon Power, which reckons that with fact-based rather than fear-based nuclear regulation, they can provide turbine power better than coal or oil for a lower capital cost and about half the running cost.

Wasn’t Moshulu the ship that transported a young Vito Corleone to America in The Godfather Part II? I think it was.

@edfederoff2679

Жыл бұрын

Yes - it absolutely was. Very observant, Sir. It's permanently docked on the Delaware River in Philadelphia - my hometown - and houses one of the best restaurants imaginable.

my fist ship was the original TS Royalist back in the early 70's I can tell you ther's nothing romantic about sailing on a ship in a storm where you never get warm or dry, and these guys on the clippers knew all about that, so no not romantic

It is absolutely criminal what's been done to the Sark, criminal. Those concerned should be strung up to a yard or the dock flooded and keelhauled.

@gordonfrickers5592

Жыл бұрын

I completely agree with you, Cutty Sark has been spoiled by arrogant people who do not really understand her. I first visited Cutty Sark as a child in the 1950's and many times since. Little did anyone know when I first set foot on Cutty Sark that one day in the future her then captain Simon Waite would invite me to loan my painting 'Last Departure' to the ship which I did, an exciting honour for a young marine artist. You can find the painting by googling my name for my marine painting website. go to Merchant Sailing Ships to enjoy the painting, see me with Captain Waite and read the surprises in the story attached, enjoy !

@TREVORALLMAN

Жыл бұрын

@@gordonfrickers5592 I live locally to the "Cutty Sark" and totally agree with you and Jonathan Simmonds.

@sunnyland3952

Жыл бұрын

I had the joy of seeing her lines before the ghastly cover was put over her. I hope they will one day throw it away in disgust. how sleek she is, it really has to be seen to be believed. No wonder she was fast.

@TREVORALLMAN

Жыл бұрын

@@sunnyland3952 Totally agree with you about the glass around the hull, as it obscures what made it such a unique vessel. The only purpose it serves is as a money-maker for the National Maritime Museum, as they can now hire out the "Cutty Sark" as an events venue.

Sailboat Race (Definition): Any two sailboats on parallel courses ;)

I wonder if the "Clipper Captain Campbell" and "Malcolm Campbell of jet powered Hydroplane racing fame"... world fastest ( 141+ MPH ) on water at the moment of his death, ...are they related?

@rodneycaupp5962

Жыл бұрын

More than 50 years ago I changed our Destryers, Aircraft Warming Lights ( tip top main mast) in the Shipping lane in the Black Sea, ...during brutal snow squalls and high winds. The Russians insisted.... They sent destroyers, cruisers, and container ships,and more passed..., for the 2 hours that this once in a lifetime task took. SO BEAUTIFUL and Deadly... LOL.......Rrrrrrrrr, The Sea ain't no joke. Ships at Sea are the way... "A ship in A Harbor is safe, ...but that is not what they are made for".

The 1st round the world race of sail boats.

I wonder how many ships were lost to rogue waves

?? Wouldn't the overland route have been quicker? Just asking.

Crime about Thermopylae

I have never heard anyone in my 50+ years of participation in this field (including crewing on a square-rigger myself) compare a clipper ship with the schooner type called a Baltimore clipper. They are totally different kinds of rigs and very different in size, originated in different eras, and sailed different seas carrying different kinds of cargoes. While the short clips of seaman interviews are about priceless, the writing of this thing is pathetic to an extreme. Goddamned 21st century television writers, be damned !

Why is the Bluenose not mentioned

@ChimeraActual

Жыл бұрын

Because the Bluenose wasn't a clipper.

That ship is now a restaurant in Philladelphia

@Bbbuddy

Жыл бұрын

That’s Moshulu, built as Kurt in 1905. Now the largest sailing ship in the world.

Would the average crew on an average cargo ship of today be able to seamlessly transition to this cargo vessel? They're 'sailors'?, right?