![]() With Cutty Sark and HMS Gannet (built 1878 a sloop-of-war in Chatham), City of Adelaide is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction to survive. In late November 2013, loaded on the deck of a cargo ship, City of Adelaide departed Europe, and arrived in Port Adelaide on 3 February 2014.Ĭity of Adelaide is the world's oldest surviving clipper ship, of only two that survive – the other is Cutty Sark (built 1869 a tea-clipper and now a museum ship and tourist attraction in Greenwich, Southeast London). In September 2013, the ship was moved by barge from Scotland to the Netherlands to prepare for transport to Australia. In 2010, the Scottish Government decided that the ship would be moved to Adelaide, to be preserved as a museum ship, and the duke formally renamed her at a ceremony in 2013. At a conference convened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 2001, the decision was made to revert the ship's name to City of Adelaide. After being served with an eviction notice by the owners of the slipway, the Scottish Maritime Museum sought the deconstruction of the ship on more than one occasion, while rescue proposals were developed by groups based in Sunderland and South Australia. Restoration work began, but funding ceased in 1999, and from 2000 the future of the ship was in doubt. Carrick was recovered by the Scottish Maritime Museum the following year, and moved to a private slipway adjacent to the museum's site in Irvine. In order to safeguard the vessel, she was protected as a listed building, but in 1991 she sank at her mooring. In 1948, she was decommissioned and donated to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Club, and towed into central Glasgow for use as the club's headquarters and remained on the River Clyde until 1989 when she was damaged by flooding. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick (to avoid confusion with the newly commissioned HMAS Adelaide), and based in Scotland as a training ship. In 1893, she became a floating hospital in Southampton, and in 1923 was purchased by the Royal Navy. From 1869 to 1885 she was part of Harrold Brothers' "Adelaide Line" of clippers.Īfter 1887, the ship carried coal around the British coast, and timber across the Atlantic. ![]() On the return voyages she carried passengers, wool, and copper from Adelaide and Port Augusta to London. ![]() Between 18 she made 23 annual return voyages from London and Plymouth to Adelaide, South Australia and played an important part in the immigration of Australia. to transport passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. London - Plymouth - Adelaide - Port Augusta - London (typical 1864–87)Īwaiting restoration at Port Adelaide, South AustraliaĬity of Adelaide is a clipper ship, built in Sunderland, England, and launched on. Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Ltd, Adelaide, S Australia (from 2013).Thomas S Dixon & Son, Belfast (1888–93). ![]() Hand-coloured lithograph by Thomas Dutton, 1864. ![]()
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