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Happy Birthday @CuttySark! 150 years young, this magnificent clipper launched 22 November 1869, by Scott & Linton in Dumbarton. #OnThisDay
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All that’s left of Denny’s shipyard at Dumbarton, on the Clyde. It was here in 1869, that the Cutty Sark was completed. #clyde #glasgow #dumbarton @CuttySark @CuttySarkLog #cuttysark
31, December 1870: "Distance 326. Strong NE to NNE breeze & dry. All plain sail set. PM, slight rain, wind hauled to westward."
The Cutty Sark on this day in 1870: "Distance 190. Very light Wly. winds & fine. Noon, calm. Midnight, strong N.E."
#OTDH 1870 Cutty Sark was en route to Shanghai to pick up tea. For 28 Dec., ship's log reads: "Distance 283 miles. Begins fresh Nly. wind."
1890 log continues: 2p.m. passed close by another iceberg with long flat top, about 200 ft. high and a mile in length. Thermometer fell 10°.
27 Dec. 1870: "Distance 129. Light & variable airs, thick fog. Noon, fog cleared away." #tallship #cuttysark #log
#OTDH 1870: "Course east. Distance 225. Begins fresh N.W. breeze & rain. P.M., faint airs & calms from eastward."
Cutty Sark's rival, #Thermopylae, would not pass the same point for another week, making Cutty the fastest ship in the wool trade in 1885.
26th December 1885 the "Ile de Verge" light was sighted at 5:30am as Cutty Sark made her return from Australia with a hold full of #wool.
#CuttySark departed Sydney harbour at noon on Christmas Eve 1893, this was the last time the famous clipper ever loaded wool as cargo.
#OTDH 1870: "Strong breeze & dry weather, S.W., high sea. Shipping much water on deck. P.M., wind fell light & hauled to westward."