"...if it's a fast ship." "Fast ship? You've never heard of the Cutty Sark? It's the ship that made the China Run in less than twelve weeks. She’s fast enough for you old man. What’s the cargo?" "Tea, and no questions asked."

@MrGchiasson

Жыл бұрын

I had no idea that the Cutty Sark still existed. Fantastic. I built several models of the Cutty Sark when I was a boy/teen. A beautiful ship. I've got to follow up on this.

@JoergSi

Жыл бұрын

Sounds fantastic, this could be used in a Movie, let's call it "Tea Wars - A New Hope"

@trevorhart545

Жыл бұрын

@@JoergSi I think it might be the Opium Wars?

I enjoyed watching Ms. Lofton “get off by any means possible.” From the rigging, that is.

Reminds me of the Euterpe/ Star of India. Still afloat and sailing as a museum ship in San Diego. An iron hulled contemporary of the Sark, it will be celebrating its 160th anniversary next year. I went out to sea under sail in 2003 as a guest of the museum. My g.g.grandfather was the longest serving captain of the ship in the 1870s and 80s.

@loboheeler

2 жыл бұрын

I was on the Star of India in around 1955, long before it's restoration to a working sailing ship. It is an iron ship without steam power, which was unusual at the time. Cutty Sark has an iron frame, but otherwise all wood.

@seanogallchoir3237

2 жыл бұрын

Would be great to see Sailing ships being used again to carry cargo under sail, also to train young people to Sail. The large profits made by leading companies could support, as their commitment to Climate change. Clean energy technology and transport, training of young people World wide, who seek a challenge to enjoy our beautiful Ocean Planet. To share & care.

@jameswood2711

Жыл бұрын

Coincidentally I had two GGG Grandfathers who served on board the ship at the same time ,one was Captain Woodgate , and the other was George Cunningham the cook .Unfortunately I have never visited the ship yet! James Wood

@harbourdogNL

Жыл бұрын

@@seanogallchoir3237 You'll find this channel fascinating: www.youtube.com/@sailcargo

@Robdutton91

9 ай бұрын

@@seanogallchoir3237I would love a chance to sail like this

My great grandfather was able bodied seaman on the Sark...Frederick Marshall...we have his diaries for the 3 England to China via The Horn👉🇬🇷👈👉🇬🇧👈

@marcuslarsson9548

2 жыл бұрын

Any mention of opium?

@alexmarshall4331

2 жыл бұрын

Not in his diaries!!!

@RalphIrvine

17 күн бұрын

A proud heritage indeed

Another marvelous history tour Alice. When I was a boy growing up here in Orlando in the early 1960's, my parents bought me a large plastic model of Curry Sark for Christmas. It was a very pleasurable and exciting experience to build that model. It was years later that I got to visit the actual ship. Thank you Alice. Very well done.

@wmpmacm

2 жыл бұрын

I built one of those, too. Cool ship.

@faerieSAALE

2 жыл бұрын

Now as an elderly man - Richard enjoys his own personal Cutty Sark as he tips a fifth of Cutty Sark every evening!

@billyjo1148

Жыл бұрын

well the human cargos slave and convict and imperial peddling of opium were what developed the clipper but that will never do for polite cobersation over a cuppa lel

@TRPGpilot

Жыл бұрын

@@billyjo1148 it is what is is, does not change the fact that it is still an impressive ship for its day.

@billyjo1148

Жыл бұрын

@@TRPGpilot indeed its a great ship however I was making a point about the historical context given glossing over the reality of the cutty sark Indeed nothing has changed there is more bonded and slave workers than ever thus it is perhaps important we do not gloss over such history and in fact learn from it wether that is unpleasant or not

Imagine having to scale that rigging in a storm with a bosun shouting at you. Yikes!

@spikespa5208

2 жыл бұрын

At night.

@smitajky

2 жыл бұрын

Without that safety harness. And going to the top, THEN going out horizontally on a yardarm to furl a sail.

@buffewo6386

2 жыл бұрын

On the bright side, you probably couldn't hear the Bosun over the wind noise. (Edit) in that storm

@jeremywelder5383

2 жыл бұрын

Or turning the South African point into massive head winds. Look it up

@marcelolinhares8233

2 жыл бұрын

Whatch the documentaries of The Pamir,Passat,and Preussen

When I was ~ 5yrs old, and just before we emigrated to Canada from UK we visited the Cutty Sark. It would have been 1964 or 65. I can still remember the holds had the lingering scent of tea. I wonder if they do now? Around one of the holds were displayed the figureheads of various other ships.

My father had a model of the Cutty Sark on the mantelpiece in the house I was born in. It too survived a fire, being set alight by an advent candle when I was 9 and being restored 3 years later.

@JulieWallis1963

2 жыл бұрын

Lovely, but still kinda sad story.

@spikespa5208

2 жыл бұрын

The first sailing ship model I ever built, in 1973, damaged beyond repair in a move 2016. If only it could have been *any* other model of mine.

I made a model of this ship as a kid in the 1950's. I was so proud of that ship, and it was a beautiful ship; and the real ship is even more beautiful.

@hoaacres7084

Жыл бұрын

Did you make a tiny fortune in the tea trade?

I thought that was Donald McKay’s Flying Cloud!

The most beautiful manmade moving object ever.devised .....I saw what I believe was a Sailing Training Ship at sea back in 1968/9 when I was in the merchant navy... a beautiful sight

She makes it look glamorous, but you may be assured it was anything BUT glamorous for the common sailor aboard.

@scottloar

2 жыл бұрын

You are so right. Anyone who has walked the decks, seen the rigging, smelled the tar and looked at the size of the pulleys ofa large sailing ship like the Cutty Sark or Falls of Clyde is quickly abused of any romantic notions of life aboard, it is all - work and hard work.

@seanogallchoir3237

2 жыл бұрын

Bare feet, no safety lines.the poem by Harry Kemp, Leaving the Sea. Cassels Magazine 1940 is worth reading. Thank you.

@seanogallchoir3237

2 жыл бұрын

The Cutty Sark should be rebuilt and use to transport cargo under sail, the training of young people to find freedom on our beautiful Ocean Planet. Thank you. #HeroesAtSea.

@clark9992

2 жыл бұрын

It must be glamorous. They named a brown coloured booze after it.

In Australia we learnt about the Cutty Sark and the wool industry in history class. She and a selection of other Clipper Ships even appeared on an issue of stamps some years ago. Sailing the Roaring Forties and if she sailed far enough south, the Furious Fifties, would have been interesting to say the least!

@schechter01

Жыл бұрын

"interesting" seems like a very mild word to describe it...

Bound for South Australia the song gets it ,best wishes to all grandparents ,!!

As a "yank" my experience with tall ships is limited so this was a treat, thank you. She's a beauty!

Fantastic ,brilliant to keep part of our maritime history. Thanks to all involved. I knew it was a tea clipper but not the wool after. Cheers for that.

@dimitriwolfs9370

2 жыл бұрын

V.9..

@martentrudeau6948

2 жыл бұрын

It has a really great history, and it's beautiful ship.

Took a tour of the ship while stationed in England back in 1985. Worth every bit of the 50p entrance fee. British Maritime Museum was nearby as well. Love those tall ships! I also got the chance to tour the “Bounty” (same one used in the movie- Mutiny on the Bounty) when it was docked in ST Petersburg FL in the late 1960’s. It sank while being moved during hurricane Sandy in 2012 off North Carolina USA. Cheers

I visited the Cutty Sark in 2005 while on business in London. Even bought a small metal portion of the mast that was sold at the gift shop after some previous restoration. I was heart broken when it was damaged by fire. So glad to see it back in such beautiful condition.

Visited yesterday. Amazing how really simple the ship was. It's basically just a huge storage compartment with some sails and sleeping quarters on top

Thanks for posting. So wonderful to see her rebuilt after the terrible fire. I visited her pre fire when Gipsy Moth was next to her. Ironically one the few original Clipper ship's is here in Port Adelaide Australia. That ship requires total restoration however.

I had a ship in a bottle as a kid in my room growing up and it was the cutty sark!!

The beauty of the Cutty Sark is undeniable and fills one with wonder for a golden age. Some day my husband and I hope to see it in person. It is both rare and beautiful. It also makes me more appreciative of Bluenose 2 which does leave Lunenburg Nova Scotia, on occasion, and visit other ports. Lunenburg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and also well worth seeing.

I love this aerial view of the display of her that was beautiful it looks like she's surrounded by ocean I can almost imagine standing on the deck in the Roaring forties of the Southern Ocean it must have been invigorating to say the least it would be nice to go inside and see her cabins and the holds maybe you can make a second film on her

@alexmarshall4331

2 жыл бұрын

No cabins on her...my great grandfather was able bodied seaman on her for 3 trips to China ...I lived a couple of hundred yards from her in dry dock in Greenwich 👉💎👈

@normanbraslow7902

Жыл бұрын

That setting is a total disgrace. Horrible design, godawful disaster. Shame, shame.

Stunning. Such passion, vision, and attention to detail that would face the high seas. What a time to have lived.

Born and raised in Chester Pa, our high school is called the Chester clippers and the Cutty Sark is in the Crest of the city of Chester

Alice clearly loves her job, causing smiles in the audience.

Go see it....worth the trip... its in Greenwich which is worth seeing too... along with Greenwich Park

I went aboard the Cutty Sark before her fire and was amazed at how little room the crew had for sleeping quarters. One room with hammocks 4 high in as much space as possible. Incredibly claustrophobic and smelly to be sure. The cargo hold was HUGE !! A truly a beautiful ship!

A race after my own heart! I’d be at the port eagerly awaiting my precious tea.

@samiam619

2 жыл бұрын

Bring money!

I was there in 2021. They did a wonderful job on the renovation and museum. Anyone going to London with the faintest interest in ships or sea-faring should make a visit!

What a pleasure to experience this ship, and the wonder and spirit of the Age of Sail through the eyes of a young, enthusiastic and clearly very gifted presenter!

Pretty video. Thank you. I admire your courage in climbing the main mast.

Visited her in 1975, and it was quite an experience. Glad there is continuing care of her.

6:30 and on. Excellent phraseology and very well done. Funny.. But 41k ppl have watched this and no one spotted that utter gem?

@bombast9866

Ай бұрын

Arrgghh ye must be able bodied Seaman Staines from the Old Smutty Fark 😂

Amazing ship, amazing history. And still there!

When our high school competed you often heard the cry "the Chester Clippers are coming!"

And here I always thought Cutty Sark was just some booze with a cool label. Thanks for this video!

Fascinating video. As a boy, I built a 3 foot model of the Cutty Sark. I wasn't aware it still existed. This will be on my list of must sees next time I go to London.

This is fantastic, I actually assembled a model of the Cutty Sark when I was a boy, I have always been fasinated by this ship.

This beautiful ship was my first London landmark.. A lovely film. Thanks for posting! 👍

@2pugman

2 жыл бұрын

We visited the Cutty Sark in the late '80's before the fire. Simply amazing.

Well done. The narrator's enthusiasm and delivery were both excellent.

I distinctly remember when I visited the cutty sark back in April of 2019 that merry go round (6:26) playing pumped up kicks on a loop but just playing like 20 seconds of the song. Kind of laughed considering the subject of that song and where it was being played.

I built my first module of Cutty Sark as a teen, and have done several ship modules since, working on one now. I always dreamed of going up rigging. I envy you. Can’t imagine how men did that when yard arm under and shipping green water over the bows. About made me cry when she was burned, we lost Bounty just a while before. Hear us when we lift our plea for those who peril on the seas

Name dropping: First, the movie WINDJAMMER with a look at Der Adler (The Eagle); Built a Ravel plastic Cutty Sark; On board the Cutty Sark while attending Churchill’s funeral 1965; I think I still have a souvenir nail from that visit; heard stories of a British grandmother riding a bicycle through Pakistan while I was riding a bicycle from Karachi to Lahore - had lunch with her beside the Cutty Sark in 1985.

I believe the fastest Clipper ship ever, was the Flying Cloud who's passage from New York to San Franciso of 89 days 8 hours stood from 1854 to 1989.

@michaelcorbidge7914

2 жыл бұрын

So entailing the southern tip of South America. I understand that there was the option of saing through the straits of Magellan.

@Xl8tor241

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelcorbidge7914 the straits of Magellan wasn't a good passage for these vessels, Sailing the Drake Passage, while could be seen as more dangerous, was much more efficient for these vessels

@kaleighard8668

Жыл бұрын

@@Xl8tor241 wow the drake passage in a clipper! Insane. Most people today can't handle it in a luxury cruise ship. Crazy to think of steerage/crew level drake passage 19th century ships commonly passing through

@ZoeylaRose

Жыл бұрын

that record is still held by the "Sovereign of the Seas" with a logged speed of 22 knots (25mph/41kmh) Note that this is a very specific record. It applies to a ship in the most literal sense, a three masted, square rigged, sailing vessel.

@ditzydoo4378

Жыл бұрын

@@ZoeylaRose Lovely information that. thank you for sharing. ^~^

The designer of that museum installation is absolutely brilliant.

What a beautiful ship! Thank you very much for sharing, appreciate it a lot! Greets from the Netherlands 🌷, T.

For some context on the speeds. The speed records set by the Tea Clippers with full cargo, were only surpassed by racing yachts with any superfluous kilo stripped in the nineteen eighties, a full hundred years later.

Jolly good. You are all doing very well. Pip pip and cheerio.

To the memory of Captain Dowman, for his vision in allowing this ship to endure...three cheers, from the other side of the planet.

Well done team another interesting video, cursed ship, (fire alarm goes off) 🤔 if you didn’t want to climb any higher you should have just said lol, 👍👍.

my grandfather told me , as a child he went to circular quay in Sydney , probably about 1905 . he said all he could see were sailing ships. history before his eyes,

I remember this ship from the show called speed machines It's rival in the tea trade was the Thermopylae And it's eventual fate of carrying wool from Australia Nice show, I highly recommend it!

Great video! Thanks

Check out the "Western Shore" / "Oregon Clipper" from Coos Bay Oregon - it still holds the record

Would have been nice to acknowledge Hercules Linton who was the man who designed Cutty Sark, born in Inverbervie on the east coast of Scotland on 1 January 1837. And perhaps a nod to Robert Burns poem Tam o’ Shanter where the name Cutty Sark came from.

@JohnyG29

2 жыл бұрын

Blimey, someone always has to have a moan. Just enjoy the video, its only 12mins long and they can't cover everything. That's what wikipedia is for.

@rnstoo1

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnyG29 I think in a "history of the Cutty Sark" it might be important to tell us who built it and where as well as why it was named the Cutty Sark. She was after all a Scottish ship and none of this is even mentioned in this video.

@georgemorrison9280

Жыл бұрын

@@rnstoo1 Quite so .

"The crew were understandably eager to get me off by whatever means necessary". Sailors never change, do they?

Alice, I'm glad the crew got you off lol.

She is such a beauty.

I like how the ship is displayed in its glass water surroundings.

Thanks!

Yay more Alice 😊

magnifique bateau.

Great video! In fact I’m making a model of it right now!

I sailed on a ship named Roald Amundsen (sail ship) and i was almost useless. Because what you see at 4:39 (and also we do not have rope belay all the way, just in some "checkpoints") and etc - this was SO scary for me in the rain and a little storm at night, so i just can't handle my feers (and do my job - raise the sails and etc). Huge respect to all of the sailor's.

There such beautiful ships

The complexity and size of the rigging!

@SewolHoONCE

Жыл бұрын

The complexity and functionality of the rigging is the great adventure of building a model with molded plastic hull.

The CUTTY SARK was the first model I put together was 2 feet long and a good foot and a half tall.

All that protection! Seamen used to run up the rigging bare footed in any weather.

Beautiful ship. I need to go to the UK amd break out the t7

I don't really remember my night on the Cutty Sark, but I did hear some good stories later.

Awesome presentation. Maybe a follow-up could take us below decks and explain something of the sailors' life?

A great marvel of engineering,

i love this ship. although: team thermopylae! 😁

@pheart2381

2 жыл бұрын

Peter Duck

An excellent book about life aboard a sailing ship is Richard Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast." Shipped as a weak eyed student from Boston on a ship bound for California and cowhides.

Excellent

I wish I could give this a second thumbs up! 👍 👍

Well done Alice

Great video... Below deck not restored? Would love to see the crew accomodations

Just the array of ropes is astounding! Now days so much is done by just pushing buttons.

The Cutty sark has dark memories for me when I was a child we visited the ship when suddenly we heard a large bank from a warehouse nearby. As we looked round we saw a small plane above the warehouse heading towards the river Thames right over the Cutty sark and dropping very quickly. Apparently the bang was the propeller falling from the plane. The pilot was never going to make the river as a place to land. The pilot pulled up the plane to miss the masts of the Cutty sark but in doing this he was to high to enable a safe landing and nose dived into the Thames just off the shoreline. He was removed from the plane at the Cutty sark the plane was towed to the jetty by a small boat. I have contacted the Cutty sark who was not aware of the incident. If they plane had crashed the aviation fuel would have burnt it to the ground back in the day the fire brigade all wore tunics and did not have all the modern equipment as they do today. It was the 31/5/1971 school holidays before I went to the senior school in September. A real hero Mr. Peter Terence Gent-Eggett.

@MotoGreciaMarios

Жыл бұрын

wow.

I believe the Thermopylae was the sister ship to the Pamir, the ship my grandfather sailed on

i always thought it was called the Cutty Shark. learned something new

Always dreamed of being at sail on a ship like that.

@seebybermo9167

2 жыл бұрын

Read 2 years before the mast great true story

@gaborbaksa4690

2 жыл бұрын

It's never too late to start. When I sailed on the Statsrad Lehmkuhl, the oldest traniee was 62. ;)

As a kid I had bedroom curtains with Cutty Sark pattern.

I have read about this from Cambridge IELTS book It is very interesting

Ships being kept in a dry dock is like having a stuffed animal on display

Outstanding tour! The setting for the ship is unique; the ship is supported at the water line by the "mesh" arch! Brilliant! Maximum access for maintenance and the glass looks like the sea from the outside. Museum ship sites take notice!!

@Mrcaffinebean

Жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing! I’ve never seen a museum ship like that. I love a ship in water but it’s very hard to maintain a ship on the water.

Moshulu logged 400 nautical miles noon to noon laden with grain from port Adelaide. the Last Grain Race!

I’m a former Navy Man . This ship is so beautiful

4:09 I think we have different ideas on what "scurrying up" and "really speedy" are.

Flying Cloud and Challenge raced from New York to San Francisco in 1854. The record was not broken for 130 years. Anyone remember Challenge?

My God, I had no idea this ship still existed.

Someone I feel needs to build a sea going replica to join the tail ships gang once more

@QurttoRco

2 жыл бұрын

Being sailor on these was awful though

Cool!

I just like ALICE she's super 😍😊😚🐻🐰😍

A guy I work with is a descendant of Richard woodget, the captain of the cutty. We recently had a guy come to work for us and his family helped build the boat. What are the odds.

The "Cutty Sark" was practically obsolete when built. Within a few years these wooden hull clippers would be replaced with larger, more robust, almost as fast wind-jammers. Well into the twentieth century wind-powered ships made economic sense for some bulk cargoes and ports. One of the innovations on the "Cutty Sark" were the inboard attachments for the shrouds and back-stays.

Visited London some years ago and saw that the Cutty Sark had been burnt down to her steel skeleton. Apparently a meeting of the board of directors of the preservation trust was being held the night before. Also recall when every schoolboy knew the name of this ship, and was likely to visit it on a school trip. I went to Dover Castle instead.

How many miles of rope is used for this rigging. Hats off to the crews of these ships.