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Queen opens the Cutty Sark and receives Gloriana
Five years and £52 million after the fire of 21 May 2007, the Cutty Sark opened her doors this 26 April, allowing the public on board for the first time in six years. She was opened by the Queen the day before, amidst a blaze of royal business, which also saw the presentation of the Royal Rowbarge Gloriana (see p11) and the conferral of royal status to the southeast London borough of Greenwich, home to the Cutty Sark.
It was only the week before that Gloriana was launched into the
Thames at Isleworth, in a storm of hail, thunder and lightning that marked the beginning of ‘Britain’s wettest drought’.
It has been a busy time for Lord Sterling, who is the man behind Gloriana’s build – and chairman of Royal Museums Greenwich and the Cutty Sark Trust. The restoration of the Cutty Sark, one of only two clipper ships remaining in Britain (the other is the City of Adelaide, on land in Scotland awaiting a decision about her future) has caused some controversy, not least in these pages. Lord Sterling told Classic Boat:
“Cutty Sark holds a unique place in the heart for the people of Greenwich, Great Britain and, indeed, the rest of the world, and it is splendid that she is re-joining the London skyline once again.”
CUTTY SARK TIMELINE 1869 Built at Dumbarton, Scotland 1895 Sold to a Portuguese firm 1916 Dismasted and re-rigged as a barquentine
BRITANNIA Launch party for Trust
THAMES SAILING BARGE
Edith May named as NHS Flagship National Historic Ships has announced its annual flagship for 2012. She is Edith May, an 86ft (26.2m) wooden Thames Sailing Barge built in 1906 by John Howard in Maldon, Essex. She will be one of the vessels partaking in this year’s Jubilee Pageant in the Avenue of Sail (see pp12-13).
24 CLASSIC BOAT JUNE 2012
The Britannia Trust held its launch party in the Sir Max Aitken Museum in Cowes on 21 April. The Trust owns the replica yacht Britannia, on which work continues. CB will cover the story as it unfolds.
1922 Restored as a stationary training ship in Falmouth
1938 Moved to Greenhithe, Kent 1951 Cutty Sark Society formed by Prince Philip
1954 Cutty Sark dry-docked in London 2000 Cutty Sark Trust takes over from the Cutty Sark Society
2006 Closed for restoration 2007 Gutted by fire on 21 May 2012 Re-opened ahead of the London Olympic Games
Above: The Queen with Richard Doughty, head of the Cutty Sark Trust, and Lord Sterling Above right: Cutty Sark suspended in a sea of glass
Classic Boat’s address:
Liscartan House, 127-131 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9AS For phone numbers, please see page 7
Yaramaz 2012
Olympic 8-M Yacht
“Yaramaz was built by August Plym in Stockholm in 1912. She was a first rule 8-Metre yacht and represented the Royal Swedish Yacht Club in the Olympic Games of the same year. She sailed the first summer under the name KSSS 1912 before she was bought by the Turkish minister in Stockholm, Moustapha Chekib Bey, who named her Yaramaz. We have owned and sailed her in the Stockholm archipelago for 30 years now.” Lars Hagbarth
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