Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Cutty Sark
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===As ''Ferreira''=== Eventually steamships began to dominate the wool trade too and it ceased to be profitable for a sailing ship. In 1895 Jock Willis sold ''Cutty Sark'' to the Portuguese firm Joaquim Antunes Ferreira for Β£1,250.<ref name="Platt13">{{cite journal|last1=Platt|first1=Alan|last2=Waite|first2=Simon T.|last3=Sexton|first3=Robert T.|title=The Cutty Sark's Second Keel and History as the Ferreira|journal=The Mariner's Mirror|volume=95|issue=1|page=13|publisher=The Society for Nautical Research|location=Portsmouth, UK|date=February 2009|doi=10.1080/00253359.2009.10657081|s2cid=163769315}}</ref> She was renamed ''Ferreira'' after the firm.<ref name="Platt13"/> Her crews referred to her as ''Pequena Camisola'' (''little shirt'', a straight translation of the Scots ''cutty sark'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bymnews.com/new/content/view/8591/80|website=BYM News & Magazine|title=Cutty Sark|date=24 January 2005|access-date=21 May 2007}}</ref> [[File:Cutty Sark (ship, 1869) - SLV H91.250-165.jpg|thumb|right|''Cutty Sark'' moored in a port, possibly Sydney. Another clipper can be seen in the background.]] The ship traded various cargoes between Portugal, Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, Mozambique, Angola, and Britain. In May 1916 she was dismasted off the [[Cape of Good Hope]] because of the rolling of the ship in bad weather and had to be towed into [[Table Bay]] off [[Cape Town]]. Because of World War I, it was impossible to obtain suitable materials to replace the masts so she was re-rigged over 18 months to a [[barquentine]] sail arrangement. In 1922 ''Ferreira'' was the last clipper operating anywhere in the world. Caught in a storm in the [[English Channel]] she put into [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]] harbour where she was spotted by retired merchant navy captain Wilfred Dowman of [[Flushing, Cornwall|Flushing]], Cornwall, who was then operating the training ship ''Lady of Avenel''. The ship returned to Lisbon, where she was sold to new owners and renamed ''Maria do Amparo'' (Mary of the Refuge, a name associated with the devotion of Our Lady of the Refuge; in Portuguese, "''Nossa Senhora do Amparo''").
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Cutty Sark
(section)
Add topic