Clipper ship City of Adelaide AKA Carrick

[Colin McA]

This might be something you have heard about.

This old ship has been languishing for many years at the Scottish Maritime musem in Irvine. As a boy I used to see it when I got the bus into town, quite a sight to see a sail ship berthed on the Clyde and it was fascinating

I never got on board when it was the RNVR ship but did walk by and looked at it plenty of times.

So in 46 days it might finally leave Scotland. I am trying to arrange a run down with some of the local guy, the engineering will be something to see.

City of Adelaide .org

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dSEusmjqWBc

more pictures.

BBC News August 2013

wiki link

[Warwick]

Thanks Colin,

I was completely unaware of this.

(PS. Are all ducks in Scotland that big?!)

[Colin McA]

of course they are, it is because they eat deep fried mars bars people throw in the bin.

interesting there is a big duck just over the wall but it is the DUKW version.

Will you be close to the proposed site?

Colin

[Warwick]

Miles away Colin.
Not sure where it's going to reside. Must be stated somewhere in all that information on the web.
I'm in Victoria, about 100km east of the centre of Melbourne (world's most liveable city). If it will be in Adelaide that's another 750km or so to the northwest of Melbourne. If it's going to Port Augusta, it will be another couple of hundred kilometres beyond Adelaide, to the northwest.

[Colin McA]

At the weekend they got it on a barge and down the river.

It is tied up awaiting the completion of the transport cradle which is getting welded together.

[Warwick]

Thanks Colin.

Imagine what the people who sailed on her would think if they were suddenly transported from then to now and saw all this. They would think they had landed on another planet.