CUTTY SARK - THE PORTUGUESE YEARS

SABIA QUE O AVÔ ANTÓNIO DO NOSSO AMIGO [A VER NAVIOS] FOI PILOTO E COMANDANTE DA [CUTTY SARK] EM 1919/1920??? ESPERAMOS TER MAIS INFORMAÇÕES BREVEMENTE!!!...

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ADENDA: enquanto esperamos, LUIS MIGUEL CORREIA deixou a mensagem seguinte: «O clipper CUTTY SARK foi comprado em Julho de 1895 por £2100 em Londres passando a chamar-se FERREIRA, e entrado em Lisboa com bandeira portuguesa a primeira vez a 28-10-1895. Em 1922 passou a chamar-se brevemente MARIA DO AMPARO e em Setembro desse ano foi comprado pelo Captain Dowman, e rebocada de Lisboa para Falmouth com o nome de origem. No livro THE LOG OF THE CUTTY SARK (Edição de 1945) o autor BASIL LUBBOCK refere-se aos portugueses de forma pouco agradável nos termos seguintes: "Captain Dowman succeeded in restoring the CUTTY SARK to her old flag in spite of the rapacious Portuguese, who not only made him pay £3750 for the old ship, but compelled him to allow her to be brought over by a Portugueses crew, who insisted on being sent back at his expense in the second class of a mail boat". »

CREOULA FOREVER!!!...

1 - Creoula, Argus and Gazela, some of the portuguese Tall Ships of the White Fleet, sailing to the NewFoundLand. Fotografia da Colecção Bensaúde - Registo digital de Sailor Girl.

2 - The place where the codfish used to be dried. O antigo Secadouro de Bacalhau da Parceria Geral de Pescarias (registo digital de Sailor Girl)

3 - Logotipo da Parceria Geral de Pescarias (colecção Grupo Bensaúde - registo digital de Sailor Girl)

4 - Carimbos gigantes para identificar sacas e algo mais que o Senhor Hélder Claro me fez o favor de explicar mas que não retive, de tão pasmada e boquiaberta que estava com tantas peças únicas da História do CREOULA... João ajude-me!... (Colecção Grupo Bensaúde - Registo digital de Sailor Girl)

5 - Utensílios utilizados a bordo do Creoula para fins que o João me ajudará a identificar! (Colecção Grupo Bensaúde - Registo digital de Sailor Girl)

6 - Um dos Diários Náuticos do CREOULA da Colecção Grupo Bensaúde (Registo digital de SailorGirl). Neste, o CREOULA era comandado pelo saudoso Comandante Francisco da Silva Paião).

7 - Modelo do CREOULA. Colecção Grupo Bensaúde - Registo digital de Sailor Girl.

8 - E o saudoso FOG HORN... Colecção Grupo Bensaúde (Registo digital de Sailor Girl).

OBRIGADA, JOÃO!...

TUDO AO BLOGUE «NÓS E O MAR», DO NOSSO AMIGO «A VER NAVIOS»!!!!

1895-1922: The Portuguese Years of «Cutty Sark»

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« (...) As steam-ships moved further into the wool trade in the 1890s, the Cutty Sark began to make less money for her owner. After the ship returned to the UK from Brisbane in 1895, Jock Willis sold her to a Portuguese firm, J. Ferreira & Co. for £2,100. Woodget transferred to the Coldinghame, and the Cutty Sark left British ownership. After being sold to J. Ferreira & Co. Cutty Sark was renamed the Ferreira. Reminiscent of her days in the late 1870s and early 1880s, Ferreira tramped various cargoes mainly between Portugal and her empire, and was a regular visitor to Rio, New Orleans, Mozambique, Angola and the UK. In the twentieth century she traded regularly between Oporto, Rio, New Orleans and Lisbon, and her crew claimed she was still capable of doing sixteen knots.

In October 1915 Portugal declared war on Germany which meant that the ship was in constant danger of being sunk by enemy naval activity. She survived unscathed until May 1916, when the rolling of the ship in bad weather led to the dismasting of the main mast and everything above the fore lowermast and the mizzen top-masts. Badly damaged, Ferreira was towed into port, arriving at Table Bay, South Africa. The cost and rarity of adequate masts and yards due to the war meant that she was converted into a barquentine (fore and aft rig) over an eighteen month period at Cape Town.

By January 1922 Ferreira ran into a Channel gale, and the captain put into Falmouth harbour to repair the damage. Wilfred Dowman, a retired windjammer skipper and owner of the training ship Lady of Avenel, saw the ship and set out to buy her. However, she returned to Lisbon without further mishap and was sold to a new Portuguese owner who changed her name to Maria do Amparo. But Dowman still wanted the ship, and at a price of £3,750 (more than what she was worth even in 1895) it was brought back to Falmouth.

In 1923 her old name and nationality was restored; the Cutty Sark had returned to British ownership.»

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