Cutty Sark: The Last of the Tea Clippers

by Eric Kentley

Book Overview

Cutty Sark was the greatest of the tea clippers and an iconic British institution. This new work describes the eventful history of this celebrated ship from her 1869 construction, her famous voyages, dramatic fire, painstaking restoration, and glorious reopening in April 2012. Developed with the Cutty Sark Trust, the book provides a chronological narrative along with detailed features on crew accounts, log entries, pieces on seamanship, ports and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591141826
• ISBN13: 9781591141822
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.0" x 10.7"