Been a Glasgow landmark for years which I’ve been fascinated with and been onboard a few times and really glad to see she is back home in her port of Adelaide where she will be looked after and restored in the sunshine. Maybe hoping one day to visit and get back onboard again. Best wishes to all with her future and again many thanks for posting a great video with her history. 👏👍🏴😉
Tea Clippers like Cutty Sark , Black Prince and Thermopylae competed to get the tea to Bristol. Great Grandfather Hamish McInnes Mitchell was a Sea Captain of sailing ships out of Greenock.
Having been watching Sampson Boat Company's Tally Ho (single mast) project for the last five years, I can tell you for sure that I would seriously doubt that this monster is ever going to be restored to floating condition. To do so would involve replacing just about everything there just using the dried out hulk as a reference. It would be a massive and incredibly expensive undertaking. Even getting it cleaned up for static display is going to be a ton of work. Best of luck with this endeavor.
The MG owners club used to hold club meetings on the Carrick back in the eighties. It was lovely inside, with lashings of polished wood. Looked much sadder and tired when I next saw her at Irvine. Great to see she looks likely to survive now. Great job!
As a child and young man I saw this ship, then the Carrick, moored in the centre of Glasgow as the RNVR club and in smoggy, damp Glasgow she was an oasis of exoticism and beauty. I then saw her at the Scottish maritime museum in Irvine, where she was laid up in a shameful state; nothing more than a rotting, vandalised, disgrace. Thank you for taking the poor old girl out to Aussie and are restoring her; a credit to all of you and a matter of shame for Scotland the we let her deteriorate into such an awful wreck in the first place.
To be fair, though, Scotland really does have a lot of social issues that need taking care of before we could start committing big sums of money to old ruined ships. As beautiful as she is, I'd want scottish finance to go toward scottish people. Not rotting wood. I don't accept this as any kind of shame on Scotland
very well done in your efforts to save city of Adelaide/Carrick as a very little boy i passed her every time i went into Glasgow i do remember her sinking at her mooring on Clyde street and the stories in the newspapers at that time i understand they patched the hole with cement and pumped her out till she floated again keep up the good work
The UK has far bigger issues to deal with than taking care of this beautiful old ship. Unfortunately... In a perfect world we wouldn't have such issues and could live our lives restoring vessels such as this. Wouldn't it be wonderful
To the team that is trying to save the ship, I wish you luck. Just be aware that these type adventures have come and gone before you. Study the case of the MV Kalakala, recovered from Alaska and returned to Seattle in hopes of restoration. The man with the heart and money to bring the ship to the public lost everything when the board voted him out. From there it was all down hill until the boat was broken up for scrap. There is a lesson there...
One day when we are free to travel around this once great country it will be worth heading to Adelaide to see this wonderful ship And the people who saved her from the bom fire 🔥
@@almac2598 that's rubbish.Sunderland Maritime Group wanted to return her to her birthplace and site her under the Wearmouth Bridge on the Sunderland city centre riverside but had zero help from the ruling Labour council.The will was there from all but the useless Labour council.
@@themanftheworld8439 The people of Adelaide raised the funds to bring her across world to the city she was built to serve, without government help. That says it all I reckon.
@@geoffroberts5641 In Sunderland the SMHG raised the funds to bring it back but their plan included full restoration to its former self.This is where the group were let down.They wanted it to become a fully fledged tourist attraction for the City of Sunderland as part of celebrating a long and proud shipbuilding history.At the same time the younger and some would say lesser Cutty Sark ship had been damaged in fire in Greenwich,London.It received full restoration from the UK govt as a ' national treasure ' but being located in the south east of England and London it recieved the publicity and the finance.
@@themanftheworld8439 The people of Adelaide raised the funds without government support. Had you not been political. maybe you could have too, easy to blame others.
Hi! It is stated at the start it was build in 1864, it might have been a little muffled as the sound quailty was not the best in some part. Thanks for bringing it up though!
The condition of the ship is way pass the point of no return, just take a look at it, forget about it, let it go for mulch and scrap, and stop milking the older lady for $$$$, plz, thanks.
She wont be restored to sailing condition for that reason I believe. A volunteer group built a sail training vessel in South Australia in the 80's She's named One and All.
