CUTTY SARK
USE AS TRAINING SHIP The famous old China tea clipper Cutty Sark, whose owner, Captain W. H. Dowman, died two years ago, is being taken to London as a boys’ training ship. From her berth at Falmouth, where she has been the delight of South Coast holiday makers since 1922, she is to be brought to the Thames as a companion to the Worcester —a revered, if less graceful, sister in sail, who carried guns some five years before the Cutty Sark first began to carry tea beneath her white wings. She will be moored in the river beside the training ship Worcester, at Greenhithe, Kent, and will be used for sail drill and similar exercises by boys being trained for the Navy and merchant service.
Mrs Dowman, Captain Bowman’s widow, who lives at The Wyke Lodge. Weymouth, was approached by the Thames Nautical Training College, and decided to present the Cutty Sark to the college. She has given instructions fox' the Cutty Sark to be towed to London during the summer. Until Captain Dowman’s death the clipper was used as a training ship fox' boys. “The public will be allowed to board her," added Mrs Dowman “She will not be altered, but will be carefully preserved." The Cutty Sark was the last of (he racing tea clippers. She was built in 1869 at Dumbarton, and started in the tea trade with China. Her greatest triumphs were later, when she took part
in the grain races from Australia. Her best run fox' 24 hours was 370 miles, averaging 151 knots, and she once outpaced the P. and O. mail steamer. Brittannia, when logging a steady 15 knots.
Captain Dowman bought , the Cutty Sark in 1922 from the Portuguese, to whom she had been sold. He paid £3.750 for her. Mrs Dowman refused offers fox- the vessel from many parts of the world.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1938, Page 9
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