(continued from page 46) on a drawing by Cutty Sark designer Hercules Linton and carved by Andy Peters, is intended to better reflect the elegance of the ship’s original design. It was installed on 11 June of this year. The 1957 figurehead, carved by Arthur Levison, has been placed in the permanent collection of the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre. Built in Dumbarton in 1869, Cutty Sark served in the tea trade until 1877, when the construction of the Suez Canal edged sailing ships out of the business. After some time transporting various cargoes around the world, she settled into the wool trade between Australia and England, earning a reputation as the fastest ship on that run. In 1895 she was sold to a Portuguese firm and changed hands another time before her sale in 1922 to Briton Wilfred Dowman. She served as a training vessel, then was saved from scrapping by the Cutty Sark Society, formed by Frank Carr, director of the National Maritime Museum, and patronized by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. Tired of nautical reproductions? Martifacts has only authentic marine collectibles rescued from scrapped ships: navigation lamps, sextants, clocks, bells, barometers, charts, flags, binnacles, telegraphs, portholes, US Navy dinnerware and flatware, and more.
After a three-year restoration, the ship was placed in a dry-dock display in Greenwich in 1957. A fire in 2007 damaged three of the ship’s decks, but these sections were repaired and the museum ship reopened in 2012. She has welcomed over 15 million visitors since her opening day in 1957. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, www.rmg.co.uk) … A trove of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum’s photo collections is now available online as high resolution digital images. Through a generous donation from David Weinstein, the research library was able to purchase a flatbed scanner and begin making the majority of its photo collections accessible to all for use in exhibits, publications, and social media. An added benefit is that the use of high resolution digital surrogates ensures perpetual access to the images, as the original prints and negatives inevitably deteriorate over time. LAMM has more than 6,200 records online hosted by PastPerfect, the collection management software system used for library, archival,
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