Cutty Sark

The Last of the Tea Clippers

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Overview

Available for sale only in the U.S. and Canada. Exceptions made for USNI Members.

 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 cargoes and broader tall ship culture, as well as an opportunity to focus on artifacts and the fittings of the clipper ship. It includes rare and previously unpublished historical images from the ship’s collections and those of the National Maritime Museum.

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Editorial Reviews

"[T]his [is a] valuable reprint ... Trawling through Mahan's 2,900 surviving letters, his diaries, his 20 books, 137 articles and numerous speeches, the author presents us with an excellent analysis and appreciation of Mahan the man.... This is a very valuable book for anyone interested in naval history, doctrine, tactics, strategy, theory and philosophy whether professionally or intellectually or both." —Baird Maritime