THE CUTTY SARK

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 143, 20 June 1938, Page 9

THE CUTTY SARK

| HER FINAL VOYAGE LONDON, June 18. When the famous China tea clipper Cutty Sark reached the Nore today after her last voyage to the Thames from Falmouth, Admiral Sir Edward Evans, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, boarded her and took command. A big crowd watched the proceedings.

The Cutty Sark, which made sailing ship history by her fast runs more than fifty years ago, first as a China tea clipper and later in the Australian wool trade, is being prepared at Falmouth for her last voyage, wrote Hector Bywater in the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post" recently. She is to be brought under tow to join H.M.S. Worcester at Greenhithe as part of the Thames Nautical Training College.

She was presented to the college last March by Mrs. Dowman, widow of Captain W. H. Dowman, who bought the ship back from the Portuguese for £3750 in 1922, and refitted her as a training school for boys in Falmouth Harbour.

Captain Dowman kept the Cutty Sark in such excellent condition that the cost of preparing her for use in the instruction of cadets in practical seamanship will not be great. The upper deck is to be reserved for recreation and physical training, while the deck below will be the "school."

Among the Cutty Sarks notable voyages was one from England to Melbourne in less than 70 days, during which she covered 363 nautical miles in 24 hours. When in her twentieth year she passed one of the crack P. and O. liners. She was built at Dumbarton in 1809.