1/3/2024 0 Comments Clipper ship model![]() The 13 day, 1 hour, 25 minute time of her maiden voyage from New York to Liverpool in January, 1854 has never been beaten by any sailing ship. The drama and emotion of the glamorous life of the mid-to-late nineteenth century clipper ship are conveyed in this depiction of the famed Red Jacket, acknowledged to be the handsomest vessel in the British merchant service, and always a favorite with the traveling public. Waterline model built 1977 to a scale of 32' = 1' Out of sight, out of mind, Thermopylae was yet regarded as the fastest clipper ship to have sailed the oceans of the world, her memory living on in the hearts and minds of only an informed few.Extreme Clipper Ship of 251', built 1853 in Rockland, Maine Though second to none in her prime, the Thermopylae came to a lonely and undignified end to sink beneath the waves which she so proudly battled for more than thirty years. On 13 th October 1907, she was towed out her berth and sunk with full naval honours by Whitehead torpedo off the mouth of the River Tagus, at a Naval regatta presided over by the Queen of Portugal. It was intended to convert her to a training ship, but the extent of rot in her hull precluded this and she was reduced to a coal hulk. In 1895 Thermopylae was sold to the Portuguese Navy, who re-named her Pedro Nunes. ![]() ![]() On one occasion, she held her own against the Canadian Pacific mail steamer Empress of India bound from Yokohama to Victoria B.C., which was logging 16 knots, for three days. Even in her cut down form, she still performed outstandingly she set a new record between Victoria, BC and Hong Kong of 23 days. Ross & Co, London, then to Redford, Montreal in 1890, who rigged her as a barque, Thermopylae traded for the next 15 years in the timber and rice trades between Asia and the West coast of North America. So Thermopylae’s involvement in the China run was short lived, her last cargo of tea being carried in 1881.įirst sold to W. Though the Cutty Sark made some good performances, she never managed to outrun the Thermopylae on the China tea trade.įate was to thwart her owner’s hopes in the tea trade: in the year after she was launched, the Suez Canal was opened, allowing steamers to reach the Far East via the Mediterranean, a shorter and quicker route not accessible to sailing ships, whose freights eventually fell so much that the tea trade was no longer profitable. Thermopylae finally arrived in London only seven days ahead of her rival. After racing each other for two weeks, the Cutty Sark lost her rudder after having passed the Sunda Straits. In 1872 Thermopylae left Shanghai with a cargo of tea for London in company with the Cutty Sark. Thermopylae’s great rival, the Cutty Sark was built for John ‘Jock’ Willis whose ambition it was for her to be the fastest in the annual race to bring home the first of the new season’s tea from China. On her continued voyage from Newcastle NSW to Shanghai with coal, she set another record between those two ports of 31 days and finally on the last leg of her maiden voyage, established a short-lived record of 91 days from Foochow to London. On her maiden voyage, captained by Robert Kimball, Thermopylae made a record crossing from Gravesend to Melbourne in 63 days. She was designed as an extreme clipper for the China tea trade with composite construction and rigged as a three-masted ship. She measured 212.0 ft x 36.0 ft x 20.9 ft and 948 tons net. The Thermopylae was built in 1868 at the shipyard of Walter Hood & Co., Aberdeen, for George Thompson’s Aberdeen White Star Line. You might have to pay VAT (Value Added Tax) or GST(General Sales Tax) depending on which tax regime prevails in your region. ![]() However this is not a guarantee because it can vary from region to region. We export our models under a tariff heading that is usually duty free. We pay for the air freight, insurance, customs clearance and final delivery to your door. We deliver DAP (Delivered At Place duties unpaid). If the model cannot be repaired to its original splendour a replacement model will be built and sent to you. Arrangements will then be made for the model to be returned to the studio in South Africa where it will be inspected and repaired. In the unlikely event that the model is damaged in transit, The Model Shipyard must be notified immediately. We have been delivering models in these for many years with great success.Īll our models in transit are fully insured. We deliver our models in specially designed wooden crates. ![]()
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