Back to the Cutty Sark…

Posted: July 2nd, 2025 | No Comments »

Visited the Cutty Sark at Greenwich last week. Though I’d walked past it many times I hadn’t actually been aboard since a school trip! I was there as Xiaolu Guo was speaking about her new book – Ishamaelle – set in the world of the old whalers so an East Indiamen seemed fitting.

The Cutty Sark was of course in the China trade for many years – the fastest of the clippers. It visited Shanghai in 1870 for the first time. Here below a couple of entries from AR Lubbock’s The Log of the Cutty Sark (1928)…

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