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Sail as work rather than sport. Tea and wool clippers, the windjammers of the Åland fleet, topsail schooners still trading into the 1960s, river barges, and the modern sail-freight revival moving goods under wind again. The trade that sail lost to steam, and the small part of it that has come back.

Part of Sailing

94 moments in this segment.

  1. - The 'Streatham' and the opium clipper 'Red Rover' title. Photographed 1850. Composite construction, iron frames with wooden planking that allowed copper sheathing without galvanic corrosion, arrived in 1863, and by 1871 the tea clippers faced serious steam competition. Baltimore clippers came out of Chesapeake Bay before the Revolution and reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815, rarely exceeding 200 tons.
  2. - California Clipper 500. Photographed alongside in port, 1850. Composite construction, iron frames with wooden planking that allowed copper sheathing without galvanic corrosion, arrived in 1863, and by 1871 the tea clippers faced serious steam competition. Baltimore clippers came out of Chesapeake Bay before the Revolution and reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815, rarely exceeding 200 tons.
  3. - California Clipper 500 (edited). Photographed alongside in port, 1850. A clipper is a mid nineteenth century merchant sailing vessel designed for speed: narrow, limited in cargo and carrying very large sail area. The boom ran from 1843 and was ended by the Panama Railroad in 1855 and the Suez Canal in 1869.
  4. - Clipper ship card Bunker Hill. Davis, Commander, is now receiving the last of her cargo at Pier 10 East River. The A 1 Out-and-Out Clipper Ship Bunker Hill DATE:ca. 1853 [ 1 ] H: 4 in, W: 6 1/2 in. Clippers dominated the New York to San Francisco run from 1848 with the California Gold Rush.
  5. - David Crockett (1853 clipper ship) sailing card. Sailing card for the clipper ship David Crockett. Composite construction, iron frames with wooden planking that allowed copper sheathing without galvanic corrosion, arrived in 1863, and by 1871 the tea clippers faced serious steam competition. Baltimore clippers came out of Chesapeake Bay before the Revolution and reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815, rarely exceeding 200 tons.
  6. - A Clipper ship in a hurricane. Photographed 1856. Composite construction, iron frames with wooden planking that allowed copper sheathing without galvanic corrosion, arrived in 1863, and by 1871 the tea clippers faced serious steam competition. Baltimore clippers came out of Chesapeake Bay before the Revolution and reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815, rarely exceeding 200 tons.
  7. - Flying Cloud. This sketch shows the American clipper, Flying Cloud, flying the American flag at the rear. The Flying Cloud made several trips to Brisbane under the Black Ball Line, transporting immigrants. Flying Cloud was built in 1851 by Donald McKay and set the fastest New York to San Francisco passage within weeks of launching, then broke her own record at 89 days and 8 hours, a mark unbroken until 1989. Eleanor Creesy navigated on both record runs; her husband Josiah Perkins Creesy was the captain.
  8. - The 'Ariel' & 'Taeping' Racing up the English Channel on 5 September during the Great Tea. Photographed under sail, 1866. The Great Tea Race of 1866 ended in joint victory over roughly 15,800 nautical miles in 99 days, an average of just over 6.6 knots. The names of the joint winning ships are not established in the sources used here.
  9. - Portait of Full-Rigged Ship ‚BENGAL‘. The clipper ship Bengal was built in Liverpool in 1868. At 1838 gross tons, she was a fast and able vessel and is known to have sailed under several different house flags over the years. Her background includes service in both the tea trade and the lucrative smuggling of opium. The clipper boom ran from 1843 and was ended by the Panama Railroad in 1855 and the Suez Canal in 1869.
  10. - The tea clipper Thermopylae. 1872, photographed as preserved. Cutty Sark and Thermopylae both left Shanghai on 18 June 1872. Cutty Sark built a 400 nautical mile lead and then lost her rudder in a gale near the Sunda Strait; carpenter Henry Henderson built a replacement over six days.
  11. - Thermopylae (bark). The bark „Thermopylae“ in full sail. 'the log of the cutty Sark' by Basil Lubbock includes this image and is captioned 'under canadian ensign'. Thermopylae arrived on 18 October and Cutty Sark a week later, on a 122 day passage. She lost the race having been the faster ship.
  12. - Framed Print Of Clipper Thermopylae. artwork in Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums Collection. Cutty Sark and Thermopylae both left Shanghai on 18 June 1872. Cutty Sark built a 400 nautical mile lead and then lost her rudder in a gale near the Sunda Strait; carpenter Henry Henderson built a replacement over six days.
  13. - Thermopylae (ship, 1868). Photographed under sail, 1872. Thermopylae arrived on 18 October and Cutty Sark a week later, on a 122 day passage. She lost the race having been the faster ship.
  14. - Thermopylae. The clipper „Thermopylae“ in a painting. Cutty Sark and Thermopylae both left Shanghai on 18 June 1872. Cutty Sark built a 400 nautical mile lead and then lost her rudder in a gale near the Sunda Strait; carpenter Henry Henderson built a replacement over six days.
  15. - Sobraon 1875 SLNSW FL607736. Clipper ship Sobraon, Gravesend, England, ca. 1875, by F. C. Gould, mounted albumen print, State Library of New South Wales, MLMSS 7715/Box 1X/Item 2. Clippers dominated the New York to San Francisco run from 1848 with the California Gold Rush.
  16. - Olivebank (ship, 1892). The four masted barque „Olivebank“ at anchor by Seychelle Islands and loading guano. The „Olivebank“ was built in 1892 in Glasgow and sank in 1939 after hitting a mine in the North Sea. She was named „Caledonia“ in 1922 and renamed „Olivebank“ in 1924. Pamir was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn with a paying cargo, on 11 July 1949, carrying Australian grain.
  17. - Olivebank (ship, 1892). The four masted barque at wharf. The „Olivebank“ was also named Caledonia and was sunk in 1939. The Australian grain trade was the last profitable application of commercial sail, and in the 1939 grain race ten of the thirteen participants were Gustaf Erikson ships. His four masted barques ran 30,000 nautical mile voyages with fewer than 30 crew.
  18. - SMS ELBE in ostasiatischen Gewässern um 1861 Gemälde von Lüder Arenhold 1903. Photographed 1903. A clipper is a mid nineteenth century merchant sailing vessel designed for speed: narrow, limited in cargo and carrying very large sail area. The boom ran from 1843 and was ended by the Panama Railroad in 1855 and the Suez Canal in 1869.
  19. - Moshulu (ship, 1904). Four masted barque at wharf. The Moshulu was originally named Kurt, named Dreadnought in 1917 and Moshulu in 1917. It was once owned by the Walt Disney Company and is now a restaurant in Philadelphia. Gustaf Erikson bought Moshulu in 1935 for $12,000 for the Australian grain trade, the last profitable application of commercial sail.
  20. - Moshulu (ship, 1904). The barque Moshulu in full square rigg sails. Gustaf Erikson bought Moshulu in 1935 for $12,000 for the Australian grain trade, the last profitable application of commercial sail.
  21. - Moshulu (ship, 1904). The four masted barque „Moshulu“ on the Pier in Portland (Australia). Gustaf Erikson bought Moshulu in 1935 for $12,000 for the Australian grain trade, the last profitable application of commercial sail.
  22. - Archibald Russel. The Scotish four masted barque „Archibald Russel“ was build 1905 in Greenock. Gustaf Erikson bought in the ship 1923. Gustaf Erikson bought aging sailing ships cheaply as everyone else moved to steam, and by the 1930s owned a significant share of the world's operational windjammers, running over 60 ships in his lifetime. His method was cost discipline while still keeping adequate crew and stores, because speed and efficiency depended on them.
  23. - Loch Tay and Lalla Rookh at wharf. LOCH TAY, fitting new topmasts. LALLA ROOKH, astern... The barque Lalla Rookh made a record breaking run from Brisbane to London in 201 days in 1905, later it was blown to bits in a Scandanavian port. Pamir was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn with a paying cargo, on 11 July 1949, carrying Australian grain.
  24. - L'Avenir (ship, 1908). Photographed under sail, 1908. The Australian grain trade was the last profitable application of commercial sail, and in the 1939 grain race ten of the thirteen participants were Gustaf Erikson ships. His four masted barques ran 30,000 nautical mile voyages with fewer than 30 crew.
  25. - Preussen - SLV Allan C. Green H91.250-378. The German five-masted full-rigged ship „Preussen“ under full sails leaving New York Harbour. The Flying P-Liners of F. Laeisz of Hamburg were the last generation of large steel sailing cargo ships, working the South American nitrate trade until the First World War. Pamir, launched at Blohm & Voss on 29 July 1905, was one of them, named for the Pamir Mountains.
  26. - Preussen ship c. 1910 SLNSW FL20702467. Preussen five-masted sailing ship, Crab Bay, England, 1910, unknown, from vintage print, State Library of New South Wales, PXA 1152/Vol. 8. The Flying P-Liners of F. Laeisz of Hamburg were the last generation of large steel sailing cargo ships, working the South American nitrate trade until the First World War. Pamir, launched at Blohm & Voss on 29 July 1905, was one of them, named for the Pamir Mountains.
  27. - The American clipper ship Flying Cloud at sea under full sail. Photographed under sail, 1913. Flying Cloud was built in 1851 by Donald McKay and set the fastest New York to San Francisco passage within weeks of launching, then broke her own record at 89 days and 8 hours, a mark unbroken until 1989. Eleanor Creesy navigated on both record runs; her husband Josiah Perkins Creesy was the captain.
  28. - Flying Cloud by Jacobsen. Photographed under sail, 1917. Flying Cloud was built in 1851 by Donald McKay and set the fastest New York to San Francisco passage within weeks of launching, then broke her own record at 89 days and 8 hours, a mark unbroken until 1989. Eleanor Creesy navigated on both record runs; her husband Josiah Perkins Creesy was the captain.
  29. - U.S. Clipper "Machanics" Own. Photographed 1918. Clippers dominated the New York to San Francisco run from 1848 with the California Gold Rush.
  30. - Andrew Jackson (1855 clipper ship) from Valentine's Manual 1919. Photographed 1919. Clippers dominated the New York to San Francisco run from 1848 with the California Gold Rush.
  31. - Parma - SLV Allan C. Green H91.250-569. Photographed under sail, 1921. Alan Villiers sailed aboard Parma between 1931 and 1933 in the Australian grain races, the voyages that produced the photographic record of commercial square rig in its final years. The Åland fleet ran these ships with fewer than 30 crew over 30,000 nautical miles.
  32. - Potosi at wharf. Five masted barque „Potosi“ at wharf. The barque was built in 1895 and was sunk in 1925 after catching fire and the crew abandoning it. Other name for the barque was „Flora“. Pamir was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn with a paying cargo, on 11 July 1949, carrying Australian grain.
  33. - Clipper „Flying Cloud“. Photographed 1926. Flying Cloud was built in 1851 by Donald McKay and set the fastest New York to San Francisco passage within weeks of launching, then broke her own record at 89 days and 8 hours, a mark unbroken until 1989. Eleanor Creesy navigated on both record runs; her husband Josiah Perkins Creesy was the captain.
  34. - American Clipper Ships 1926 01. Surprise, Clipper built in 1850, from a painting by Charles Robert Patterson. T. (1926) American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858, Salem, MA: Marine Research Society. A clipper is a mid nineteenth century merchant sailing vessel designed for speed: narrow, limited in cargo and carrying very large sail area. The boom ran from 1843 and was ended by the Panama Railroad in 1855 and the Suez Canal in 1869.
  35. - Passat - Hamburg. Bemanning.. Photographed as preserved, 1930. Passat is a four masted steel barque of the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz, later sold into the Åland grain trade under Gustaf Erikson, and one of the survivors of the last commercial square rig era.
  36. - Charles W. Morgan and Platina Whalers at pier, New Bedford, Mass. Photographed alongside in port, 1930. Charles W. Morgan was built in 1841 at the Hillman yard in New Bedford, Massachusetts and is the only surviving wooden whaling ship of an estimated 2,700 built in the American fleet. She served 80 years, made 37 voyages and produced 54,483 barrels of oil and 152,934 pounds of whalebone. She was moored at Mystic Seaport on 8 November 1941, restored between 2010 and 2013 and relaunched on 21 July 2013, the 172nd anniversary of her original launch, before making a 38th voyage in 2014.
  37. - Whalers at pier, New Bedford, Mass. Photographed alongside in port, 1930. Charles W. Morgan was built in 1841 at Jethro and Zachariah Hillman's yard in New Bedford, Massachusetts, named for owner Charles Waln Morgan. She is the only survivor of an estimated 2,700 wooden whaling ships built in the American fleet.
  38. - C. W. Morgan Whaler, New Bedford, Mass. Photographed under sail, 1930. Charles W. Morgan was built in 1841 at Jethro and Zachariah Hillman's yard in New Bedford, Massachusetts, named for owner Charles Waln Morgan. She is the only survivor of an estimated 2,700 wooden whaling ships built in the American fleet.
  39. - Peking, voilier allemand acheté par les Anglais pour servir de bateau école [aujourd'hui. Photographed 1932. The Flying P-Liners of F. Laeisz of Hamburg were the last generation of large steel sailing cargo ships, working the South American nitrate trade until the First World War. Pamir, launched at Blohm & Voss on 29 July 1905, was one of them, named for the Pamir Mountains.
  40. - Windjammer Sets Out From Sydney. A windjammer leaves Sydney on 25 May 1933 with a cargo of wool for Europe, described by Movietone as the largest sailing vessel in the world. Deep-water sail survived longest on the Australian grain and wool runs, where the cargo could stand a slow passage. The homeward voyages were reported as races.
  41. - Last Topsail Schooner. Movietone films a topsail schooner under full sail at the end of 1936, with a commentary calling her the last of her kind. Topsail schooners carried coastal and short-sea cargo in Britain into the twentieth century, worked by crews of four or five. The item is sound footage of the ship at sea and on deck.
  42. - Land Utilization City of New Bedford - DPLA - 1233b391096b9979060b23d1da6b2f13. Photographed 1940. Charles W. Morgan was built in 1841 at Jethro and Zachariah Hillman's yard in New Bedford, Massachusetts, named for owner Charles Waln Morgan. She is the only survivor of an estimated 2,700 wooden whaling ships built in the American fleet.
  43. - Tall ships outisde Hammarudda fortification, Åland 1942. "Hammarudda fortification. " Picture by Fenrik L. Zilliacus. Pommern survived the Second World War and is preserved as a museum ship at Mariehamn. Erikson bought Moshulu in 1935 for twelve thousand dollars for the Australian grain trade.
  44. - Tall ships outside Hammarudda fortification, Åland 1942. "Hammarudda fortification. " Picture by Fenrik L. Zilliacus. Gustaf Erikson bought aging sailing ships cheaply as everyone else moved to steam, and by the 1930s owned a significant share of the world's operational windjammers, running over 60 ships in his lifetime. His method was cost discipline while still keeping adequate crew and stores, because speed and efficiency depended on them.
  45. - Panorama of Mariehamn in 1944. " Picture by Military Official (fi: "sot. ") Eino Nurmi. Pommern survived the Second World War and is preserved as a museum ship at Mariehamn. Erikson bought Moshulu in 1935 for twelve thousand dollars for the Australian grain trade.
  46. - Archibald Russell (ship). ) Hulk of the four-masted barque, the Archibald Russell, in the River Tyne, opposite Spillers Grain Wharf in August 1948. (Description supplied with photograph). The Australian grain trade was the last profitable application of commercial sail, and in the 1939 grain race ten of the thirteen participants were Gustaf Erikson ships. His four masted barques ran 30,000 nautical mile voyages with fewer than 30 crew.
  47. - Archibald Russell (ship). ) Hulk of the four-masted barque, the Archibald Russell, in the River Tyne, opposite Spillers Grain Wharf in August 1948. Pamir was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn with a paying cargo, on 11 July 1949, carrying Australian grain.
  48. - Cutty Sark'S Last Voyage. Cutty Sark is towed to Greenwich on 16 December 1954 to be kept as a memorial to the age of sail. She was launched at Dumbarton in 1869 for the China tea trade and later carried Australian wool. She has been in her dry dock at Greenwich ever since.
  49. - The Cutty Sark. Queen Elizabeth II inspects Cutty Sark at Greenwich on 27 June 1957 after performing the ceremony marking her installation in dry dock. The clipper had been towed to Greenwich in 1954 to be preserved. She was received by the mayor, Councillor Mrs Wentworth.
  50. - Kathleen And May Schooner. The topsail schooner Kathleen and May lies at Appledore Quay on 30 June 1967, with her skipper Paul Davis coming up from his cabin, painting the deck and cleaning the old anchor winch. Kathleen and May was built at Connah's Quay in 1900 and is the last surviving British wooden three-masted topsail schooner. Movietone notes the foremast boom gallows and halyard winch, fitted when she was built and then out of use, which Davis intended to bring back into service.
  51. - News In Colour - Cutty Sark'S Anniversary. Eight minutes of colour cutting material from Cutty Sark's centenary in November 1969, including photographs of the original crew and of Captain Woodget, paintings of the ship, and visitors coming aboard at Greenwich. Richard Woodget commanded her on the Australian wool passages of the 1880s, her fastest years. The reel is unedited shot material.
  52. - News In Colour - Cutty Sark'S Anniversary. Movietone marks Cutty Sark's centenary on 27 November 1969 with the daughter of her designer, Hercules Linton, visiting the ship, alongside a caber tossing championship won by Bill Anderson of Aberdeen and a competition for the most original mini dress, the name Cutty Sark meaning short shift. The clipper was launched at Dumbarton in 1869 for the tea trade. The item mixes the ship's history with the celebration around it.
  53. - Charles W Morgan ship 8c. Photographed under sail, 1971. Charles W. Morgan was built in 1841 at the Hillman yard in New Bedford, Massachusetts and is the only surviving wooden whaling ship of an estimated 2,700 built in the American fleet. She served 80 years, made 37 voyages and produced 54,483 barrels of oil and 152,934 pounds of whalebone. She was moored at Mystic Seaport on 8 November 1941, restored between 2010 and 2013 and relaunched on 21 July 2013, the 172nd anniversary of her original launch, before making a 38th voyage in 2014.
  54. - Cutty Sark. 1974 date and no commentary. Movietone holds the material as unedited shots.
  55. - Kruzenshtern 1. «Крузенштерн» (Kruzenshtern) at Reykjavik. The photographic record of commercial sail is largely a record of ships alongside, because that is where cameras were. Alan Villiers is the reason the sea-going side exists at all: he went to sea at fifteen and spent decades aboard square riggers documenting their decline.
  56. - D09.31 Mariehamn, Viermastbark Pommern. Photographed 2007. Pommern survived the Second World War and is preserved as a museum ship at Mariehamn in the Åland Islands, one of the last of the steel four masted barques of the Australian grain trade.
  57. - Flying Fish Baltimore clipper. Photographed under sail, 2007. Baltimore clippers came out of Chesapeake Bay before the Revolution and reached their zenith between 1795 and 1815, rarely exceeding 200 tons. Pride of Baltimore and Pride of Baltimore II are modern reproductions of the topsail schooner version.
  58. - Halifax DGJ 5349B - For the Women. Photographed under sail, 2009. The Flying P-Liners of F. Laeisz of Hamburg were the last generation of large steel sailing cargo ships, working the South American nitrate trade until the First World War. Pamir, launched at Blohm & Voss on 29 July 1905, was one of them, named for the Pamir Mountains.
  59. - Passat und Travemünde. 2011. Passat is a four masted steel barque of the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz, later sold into the Åland grain trade under Gustaf Erikson, and one of the survivors of the last commercial square rig era.
  60. - 49544 Cairngorm (ship). Photographed 2011. The clipper boom ran from 1843 and was ended by the Panama Railroad in 1855 and the Suez Canal in 1869. By 1871 the tea clippers already faced serious steam competition, and the trade moved to steamers that could use the canal.
  61. - Cutty Sark 2012 landscaping. Shot of the clipper Cutty Sark in Greenwich, London, UK. Building work continuing to landscape the area surrounding the ship which is now re-emerging from surrounding scaffolding after reconstruction following the fire on the ship. Cutty Sark was launched on 22 November 1869 to a Hercules Linton design, 212.5 feet on the hull with 36 feet of beam and 2,100 tons displacement at 20 feet of draught. She carried tea for eight seasons from 1870 to 1877 on passages of 107 to 122 days, then dominated the wool trade between 1883 and 1895 under Captain Richard Woodget, who took her from Newcastle to London in 83 days in December 1883, 25 days faster than her competitors.
  62. - Captain's Cabin Herzogin Cecilie, Mariehamn Museum. The restored Captain's cabin of the four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, in the Maritime Museum of Mariehamn, Finland, 15 July 2012. Pommern survived the Second World War and is preserved as a museum ship at Mariehamn. Erikson bought Moshulu in 1935 for twelve thousand dollars for the Australian grain trade.
  63. - Mystic Seaport L.A. Dunton - Fishing Schooner. A. Dunton - Fishing Schooner, 2012. A. Dunton, built in 1921 and acquired by Mystic Seaport in 1963, is among the last of the larger sail-only fishing vessels and a National Historic Landmark. The Grand Banks schooners raced their catch home because the first fish to market fetched the price.
  64. - Mystic Seaport. A. Dunton, a fishing Schooner, in Mystic Seaport, CT. A. Dunton, built in 1921 and acquired by Mystic Seaport in 1963, is among the last of the larger sail-only fishing vessels and a National Historic Landmark. The Grand Banks schooners raced their catch home because the first fish to market fetched the price.
  65. - Aland Maritime Museum & Pommern. A visit to the Aland Maritime Museum at Mariehamn and to Pommern, moored alongside it. Aland shipowners, above all Gustaf Erikson, kept the last deep-water square riggers working the Australian grain trade into the 1930s. The museum holds the record of that fleet.
  66. - 2012-10-23 Insurance Cover Apollo 12 anagoria. Photographed as preserved, 2012. A clipper is a mid nineteenth century merchant sailing vessel designed for speed: narrow, limited in cargo and carrying very large sail area. The boom ran from 1843 and was ended by the Panama Railroad in 1855 and the Suez Canal in 1869.
  67. - The chocolate sailor. Surely not !. This photo is one of a series of photos taken by Julian Mason on Monday 26th August 2013. Cutty Sark was launched on 22 November 1869 to a Hercules Linton design, 212.5 feet on the hull with 36 feet of beam and 2,100 tons displacement at 20 feet of draught. She carried tea for eight seasons from 1870 to 1877 on passages of 107 to 122 days, then dominated the wool trade between 1883 and 1895 under Captain Richard Woodget, who took her from Newcastle to London in 83 days in December 1883, 25 days faster than her competitors.
  68. - Travemünde Passat 2013 02. Photographed alongside in port, 2013. Passat is a four masted steel barque of the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz, later sold into the Åland grain trade under Gustaf Erikson, and one of the survivors of the last commercial square rig era.
  69. - Barken Viking and Lilla Bommen in Göteborg harbour. The magnificent tall ship Barken Viking and the beautiful architectural structure Lilla Bommen (aka The Lipstick) side by side in Göteborg, Sweden. Alan Villiers sailed aboard Parma between 1931 and 1933 in the Australian grain races, the voyages that produced the photographic record of commercial square rig in its final years. The Åland fleet ran these ships with fewer than 30 crew over 30,000 nautical miles.
  70. - Watercolour The Pamir Sails from Wapping. Photographed 2013. Pamir was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, on 11 July 1949, carrying Australian grain. The Australian grain trade was the windjammers' last profitable application, and in the 1939 grain race ten of the thirteen participants were Gustaf Erikson ships.
  71. - Red Sails Aka Sailing Barge (1947). Men work a Thames sailing barge in 1947, hauling on the ropes to swing the sail, coiling line and standing out on the bowsprit, with a tug towing at one point. Thames barges carried cargo under sail with a crew of two, made possible by winches and a flat bottom that let them take the ground. Pathe's title is Red Sails, after the ochre-dressed canvas.
  72. - The Many Lives of the Charles W. Morgan. A portrait of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan across everything she has been since her whaling voyages ended, from film work to tourist attraction. She was launched at New Bedford in 1841, made 37 voyages over 80 years, and is the last wooden whaleship in the world. She is preserved at Mystic Seaport and sailed again in 2014.
  73. - J.J. Prior: A Voyage on the Working Thames. A documentary short following the sailing barge James Prior carrying construction aggregate from J.J. Prior's quarry at Fingringhoe in Essex up the Thames to Brewery Wharf at Deptford. The firm was founded in 1870 and still works the river. The film treats the voyage as a working passage rather than a heritage outing.
  74. - 00 2162 Rigging of the four-masted barque Viking. Photographed under sail, 2015. Alan Villiers sailed aboard Parma between 1931 and 1933 in the Australian grain races, the voyages that produced the photographic record of commercial square rig in its final years. The Åland fleet ran these ships with fewer than 30 crew over 30,000 nautical miles.
  75. - Barken Viking med flaggspel. The Viking barque moored at Lilla Bommen in Gothenburg, Sweden. Alan Villiers sailed aboard Parma between 1931 and 1933 in the Australian grain races, the voyages that produced the photographic record of commercial square rig in its final years. The Åland fleet ran these ships with fewer than 30 crew over 30,000 nautical miles.
  76. - Kruzenshtern auf der Elbe. The Kruzenshtern is a Russian sailing school ship. The ship type is a four-mast steel ridge. Windjammer means a commercial sailing ship with multiple masts, however rigged. The term dates in the Oxford English Dictionary from 1878 and was originally pejorative, used contemptuously by steamship crews; an 1892 Rudder Magazine reference records liner deck hands calling sailing vessels wind-jammers.
  77. - Ålands sjöfartsmuseum May 2016 16. Memory wall Ålands sjöfartsmuseum (Åland Maritime Museum) in Mariehamn, Åland (Finland). Sailors' memorial. Pommern survived the Second World War and is preserved as a museum ship at Mariehamn. Erikson bought Moshulu in 1935 for twelve thousand dollars for the Australian grain trade.
  78. - Ålands sjöfartsmuseum May 2016 20. Ålands sjöfartsmuseum (Åland Maritime Museum) in Mariehamn, Åland (Finland). Sailors' memorial. Gustaf Erikson bought aging sailing ships cheaply as everyone else moved to steam, and by the 1930s owned a significant share of the world's operational windjammers, running over 60 ships in his lifetime. His method was cost discipline while still keeping adequate crew and stores, because speed and efficiency depended on them.
  79. - Cutty Sark - the fastest ship of its day. Royal Museums Greenwich introduce Cutty Sark, launched at Dumbarton in 1869 for the China tea trade. She later carried wool from Australia, making her fastest passages under Captain Richard Woodget in the 1880s. She has been preserved in dry dock at Greenwich since 1954.
  80. - Kotka in 2017. The tall ships races in Kotka, Finland 2017. The two ships are Kruzenshtern and Mir. Gustaf Erikson bought aging sailing ships cheaply as everyone else moved to steam, and by the 1930s owned a significant share of the world's operational windjammers, running over 60 ships in his lifetime. His method was cost discipline while still keeping adequate crew and stores, because speed and efficiency depended on them.
  81. - Sperm whale scrimshaw (Merrill's Wharf). Replica of scrimshaw on sperm whale tooth with a maritime scene and the inscription Merrill's Wharf-New Bedford. The Australian grain trade was the last profitable application of commercial sail, and in the 1939 grain race ten of the thirteen participants were Gustaf Erikson ships. His four masted barques ran 30,000 nautical mile voyages with fewer than 30 crew.
  82. - Segelschiff Peking erreicht Hamburg | Ausdocken Brunsbüttel und Sperrwerkspassage. The four-masted barque Peking is undocked at Brunsbuttel and passes the barrage on her way to Hamburg in 2017. Peking was built at Blohm und Voss in 1911 for the Laeisz nitrate trade to Chile, and she returned to Germany from New York in 2017 for restoration. The footage follows the tow rather than any sailing.
  83. - 4-Mastbark Passat in Travemünde. Photographed 2018. Passat is a four masted steel barque of the Flying P-Liner fleet of F. Laeisz, later sold into the Åland grain trade under Gustaf Erikson, and one of the survivors of the last commercial square rig era.
  84. - Museum Ship Pommern Port-Dry Dock 20 3 2019 Mariehamn Åland. The museum ship Pommern in dry dock at Mariehamn in March 2019, filmed with her dimensions and rig recorded: a steel four-masted barque of 94.67 metres overall with 3,240 square metres of sail. She was built by J. Reid and Company at Glasgow and launched on 13 January 1903. Dry docking is how a preserved steel hull is kept from wasting.
  85. - The Prow of the Cutty Sark. Even from here she looks like she will get her cargo to you in time for tea. uk/cutty-sark/history. Cutty Sark was launched on 22 November 1869 to a Hercules Linton design, 212.5 feet on the hull with 36 feet of beam and 2,100 tons displacement at 20 feet of draught. She carried tea for eight seasons from 1870 to 1877 on passages of 107 to 122 days, then dominated the wool trade between 1883 and 1895 under Captain Richard Woodget, who took her from Newcastle to London in 83 days in December 1883, 25 days faster than her competitors.
  86. - Pommern, Åland Maritime Museum, 2019. 2019, photographed as preserved. Pommern survived the Second World War and is preserved as a museum ship at Mariehamn in the Åland Islands, one of the last of the steel four masted barques of the Australian grain trade.
  87. - Charles W. Morgan whaleboat & rigging. Photographed in detail on deck, 2019. Charles W. Morgan was built in 1841 at the Hillman yard in New Bedford, Massachusetts and is the only surviving wooden whaling ship of an estimated 2,700 built in the American fleet. She served 80 years, made 37 voyages and produced 54,483 barrels of oil and 152,934 pounds of whalebone. She was moored at Mystic Seaport on 8 November 1941, restored between 2010 and 2013 and relaunched on 21 July 2013, the 172nd anniversary of her original launch, before making a 38th voyage in 2014.
  88. - Charles W. Morgan rigging. 2019, photographed in detail on deck. Charles W. Morgan was built in 1841 at the Hillman yard in New Bedford, Massachusetts and is the only surviving wooden whaling ship of an estimated 2,700 built in the American fleet. She served 80 years, made 37 voyages and produced 54,483 barrels of oil and 152,934 pounds of whalebone. She was moored at Mystic Seaport on 8 November 1941, restored between 2010 and 2013 and relaunched on 21 July 2013, the 172nd anniversary of her original launch, before making a 38th voyage in 2014.
  89. - 'Cutty Sark & The Great Clippers' / Nautical Engineering Documentary. A documentary on Cutty Sark and the tea clippers that raced cargoes home from China in the second half of the nineteenth century. Speed mattered because the first tea of the season fetched the best price in London. Cutty Sark was launched in 1869, the same year the Suez Canal opened and began taking the tea trade away from sail.
  90. - Cutty Sark in Drydock. Clipper ship "Cutty Sark" in the permanent dry dock at Greenwich that was built for its display. wikipedia. Cutty Sark was launched on 22 November 1869 to a Hercules Linton design, 212.5 feet on the hull with 36 feet of beam and 2,100 tons displacement at 20 feet of draught. She carried tea for eight seasons from 1870 to 1877 on passages of 107 to 122 days, then dominated the wool trade between 1883 and 1895 under Captain Richard Woodget, who took her from Newcastle to London in 83 days in December 1883, 25 days faster than her competitors.
  91. - POMMERN Museum Ship | Mariehamn Maritime Museum | Åland | Mariehamn Harbour. Pommern at Mariehamn in the Aland Islands, the only four-masted merchant sailing ship in the world still in her original state. She was built in Scotland in 1903 and bought by the Aland shipowner Gustaf Erikson in 1923, carrying Scandinavian timber, Chilean saltpetre and Australian grain. Her last commercial voyage was in 1939 and she has been a museum ship since 1952.
  92. - The Cutty Sark: Inside The Fastest Ship Of The Victorian Era. Alice Loxton goes aboard Cutty Sark at Royal Museums Greenwich and climbs her rigging. Cutty Sark was launched at Dumbarton in 1869 for the China tea trade and later ran Australian wool, and she is the last surviving tea clipper. The tour covers the hold and the deck as well as the ascent.
  93. - Pommern maj 2022 dagmannahytt. The four-masted barque Pommern in Mariehamn in May 2022. "Day men's" cabin, for crew such as craftsmen, who did not take part in the watches. Pommern survived the Second World War and is preserved as a museum ship at Mariehamn in the Åland Islands, one of the last of the steel four masted barques of the Australian grain trade.
  94. - Cutty Sark: The Sole Remaining Tea Clipper In The World. A history of Cutty Sark from the tea trade through her later years of tramping under captains who mistreated her and crews who deserted, and the fire she survived. The film also covers how her name came to be used by a whisky brand. Cutty Sark was launched at Dumbarton in 1869 and is the last surviving tea clipper.
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