CITY OF ADELAIDE Leaves London
MaritimeMatters reader Colin Miell kindly supplied the photographs of clipper ship CITY OF ADELAIDE as she is maneuvered on her barge out of the River Thames, bound initially for Dordrecht in southern Holland, calling at Zeebrugge . Theses pictures were taken between 1pm and 1:30pm, October 20th from the waterfront of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London.
The clipper was renamed by Prince Philip in a ceremony at the Old Royal Naval College on October 18th, then yesterday moved from her moorings on the River Thames on an ocean-going barge, heading to Holland where she will undergo extensive fumigation.
The 75m-long hull, the world’s first composite vessel to have wood over wrought iron, will be wrapped before being loaded her onto a heavy-lift ship for the final voyage to South Australia in December.
CITY OF ADELAIDE will likely pass through the Suez Canal before arriving at Port Adelaide between February and April 2014. In Adelaide the ship will be restored and opened as a tourist attraction.
DUTCH PIONEER, the tug that brought her from Scotland, is a Dutch registered 2001-built vessel with a length of 26m and average speed of 8.9 knots
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Having fought for this vessels survival, I am sad to see her go by rights she should have remained in the UK, there is it seems in the authorities here a total lack of wil and vision, sell it off if at all possible being the only vision our governments local and national have. I am pleased that City of Adelaide has been saved, built in 1864 she was not the first composite vessel that was built in 1851 Jason see david MacGregors books for that. Built under Lloyds experimental rules, She is important as the oldest survivor, and according to Captain Waite late of Cutty Sark who surveyed both hulls, has an iron frame and box keel in better shape than that clipper.Although her planking is in poor shape it is still looking better and more fared in than the other clipper on which so much money has been lavished and so much especially work done to the hull done so poorly, it does her original builder no justice at all, whitness where the old entrance door was, it looks like a doorway bricked up and the hull form like that of a clinker built shed. I wish the Australians every success. I had on the 18th in my bag a part of Darra 1865, Ambassador 1869, Cutty Sark 1869 and City of Adelaide 1864. did the media show any interest no of course not but passers by did, as I said for one last time parts of four clippers all of which I had seen were in one place on the Thames for one last time.
City of Adelaide arrived safely at Port Adelaide on 7 Feb 2014. Now the mammoth job of rebuilding begins. Wishing you all every success.
http://cityofadelaide.org.au/the-project/final-voyage.html