Cutty Sark going up ...

... but not in flames this time.

It was raised 3 metres over 2 days on its "final voyage":
BBC News - Lifting the Cutty Sark into place

Not sure when this actually happened, but the video clip looks like a plug for a BBC2 programme tonight at 9pm (everywhere except Wales for some reason):
BBC Two - Cutty Sark: National Treasure

Richard

 

Am I the only one here who thinks the idea of raising a 150 year old ship vertically up in the air and resting it on a series of pillars as part of a 'restoration' just to create a corporate entertainment venue beneath its hull? I read that the head naval architect resigned over the way the hull is expected to survive in a position it was never designed for. I'm not expecting it to go to sea but there must be better ways of saving the ship for the future

 

Bare minimum - the keel should be supported along its length !

Bob.

 

Last time I saw it there were steel girders going through the sides of the ship, that was in summer last year. It's been covered up from view most of the time.

 

Cutty Sark - Visit the world famous Cutty Sark clipper ship It's even on the front page

 

My machine mashed up the recording, but the little bit I did see included someone saying that the main thing was to take the weight OFF the keel as the hull wasn't designed to take that weight over 50 years. From the artists' impressions I saw (before the recording packed up), the ship will be suspended from about "water level" by a steel framework attached to the side of the dry dock.

Richard

 

Ok well I'll enter this debate....
For a start it was repeatedly stated by Dame Jenny Abramski (HLF) that it is the only Grade 1 listed ship......well for a start "listing" does not apply to ship's. Historic ship's are entered on the National Register of Historic Vessel's and even the top examples, the core collection don't have any "protected status" so this confirms to me what others, some very heavilly involved in ship preservation, that Cutty Sark now quite simply is not a ship!
She is now rigidly fastened to land and is a building or structure but not a ship.
I also believe the final bill will come in at around £55 million.......now come on!
It was said on the programme that "she was unique". Well that she maybe as an example of a sailing ship. How many other "unique" ships or other historic items could have been saved and even returned to service as opposed to stuffed and literally mounted for the same cash?