The ship that will not die : the splendid clipper ship City of Adelaide, A.1, 791 tons register, 1,500 tons burthen, built 1864 / Ron Roberts
- Bib ID:
- 7284491
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Roberts, Ron, author
- Description:
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- Adelaide, South Australia : Peacock Publications, 2016
- 160 pages, 22 pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles (some colour), maps (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 31 cm
- ISBN:
- 9789252631767 (hardback)
- Summary:
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"From 1864, for her first 23 years, the City of Adelaide transported people and products both from London to South Australia, and on her return voyages. This book describes the many roles played by the Clipper Ship over the 113 years which followed. After serving as a Collier in 1887, the City of Adelaide became an international Timber Carrier for 5 years, followed by 30 years service as a floating Isolation Hospital Ship in Southampton. In the years 1923-1940, the Clipper, re-named as H.M.S. Carrick, served as a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Drill Ship in Scotland. During World War II, she transferred to the Royal Navy to become a Gunnery Training Ship. For 40 years from 1948, she became the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Clubrooms, floating on the River Clyde in central Glasgow. In 1992, after she had sunk at her moorings on three occasions over that period, the Clipper was rescued by the Scottish Museum for restoration. However, British financial support disappeared, and by the middle of the year 2000 she was facing demolition."--Page 3.
- Notes:
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- Colour illustrations on end papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 158)
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Ship that will not die : the clipper ship City of Adelaide
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2016
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