The Return of the "Cutty Sark". With eight illustrations.

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Original publication date: 1924-11-27
People/Characters: Cutty Sark
Epigraph: [None]
Dedication: [None]
First words: The author is indebted to Captain Woodget and to Captain Millett for much of the information contained in the following pages; also to Mr. Basil Lubbock's "Log of the 'Cutty Sark'" for data concerning the ship's earlier voyag... (show all)es.

Author's note.
"A hundred years is a very long time" - so runs the first line of the old sailor shanty.

Introductory. The building of the ship.
Her first passage was not a specially fortunate one.

Chapter one.
Last words: (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)She was taking her pilot once again with the long weeks and months of the voyage behind her . . . the thundering westerlies, the stormy Horn, the smell of the Antarctic ice . . . the golden tropic days, the star-sown tropic nights . . . eighty days from Sydney Heads, first home of the racing wool fleet. . . .
Original language: English

Genre: Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 910 — History & geography Geography & travel modified standard subdivisions of Geography and travel