City of Adelaide (ship)
 The ship, 2013 during transport
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The City of Adelaide is a full-fledged clipper ship in composite construction . It is one of the last two surviving vehicles of its kind. Currently the museum ship only exists as a Hulk . There are plans to restore the ship in Australia.
history
Travel time
The City of Adelaide was built in 1864 at the William Pile, Hay & Company shipyard in Sunderland, Northeast England for the Australian shipping company Devitt & Moore. The construction of the full clipper ship, developed as a passenger and cargo ship, was carried out as a composite structure. The longitudinal bracings and frames are made of iron, the deck and the outer skin of the ship are made of wood. In addition to passengers, the City of Adelaide carried all kinds of cargo from London to Adelaide. The clipper completed one of the trips in a record time of only 65 days. The return voyages were often made of wool from Port Augusta. In 1877 the ship was first hung up and then sold to Chas Mowll from Dover, who employed it in the coal trade. In 1889 the shipping company Dixo & Son from Belfast bought the ship, converted it into a barque and operated lumber trips to Northern Australia.
Stationary use
The next stop was Millbrook on the River Test, where it was acquired by the Southampton Corporation prior to World War I and used as a floating hospital for the infectious. In 1923 the British Admiralty took over the ship, renamed it HMS Carrick and put it to Irvine as a training ship for the Clyde Division of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve . The ship was later transferred, first as Naval Gunnery School HMS Carrick , then as the headquarters of the Greenock Sub-Division of the RNVA to Greenock. After the end of World War II, it was given as a gift from the British Admiralty to the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR), which used the ship as an officers' quarters and headquarters in Glasgow until around 1990.
Museum career
In 1990 the Clyde Ship Trust received the Carrick as a gift. She sank shortly afterwards at her new berth in the Princess Dock in Glasgow and was only lifted after about 13 months. The Scottish Maritime Museum took over the mastless Hulk in January 1992 for restoration. The ship was again transferred to Irvine, where in September 1993 the expansion of the changes made in 1923 began. In an attempt to restore the ship to the original City of Adelaide , the museum was unable to raise sufficient funds for the costly restoration until 1999. In 2000, the administration therefore deleted the ship from the "Maritime Heritage" list. The ship was then offered for sale to a number of museums without success. It was only when the final demolition of the traditional ship was feared that a group of supporters was founded in Adelaide, Australia, with the aim of bringing the City of Adelaide to South Australia and restoring it. Until 2010 it was not possible to raise the necessary funds there either. After a final postponement of scrapping in the spring of 2010, the Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Preservation Trust plans to at least preserve the ship. A decision to transport from Scotland to Adelaide was taken in August 2010 after the Australian government made a site available for a museum. The actual transportation of the City of Adelaide was planned from 2011.
Transport to Australia
- 2011: The laser measurement of the hull was the prerequisite for the precisely fitting construction of the transport frame with which the ship was moved onto a pontoon and which should also support the hull during the transfer to Australia. At the end of 2011, the CAD design of this support structure was ready. These services were raised with the generous support of two dozen engineering offices and the One-Steel company. Also at the end of 2011, the preliminary examinations regarding possible biological hazards arising from the import of the wooden parts were carried out in Irvine by experts from the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS). Employees from many Australian companies donated their time to manufacture the individual parts of the transport frame, which finally arrived in Irvine in November and December 2011, completely packed in containers.
- 2012: The transport frame was set up in Irvine near the ship for the test loading and the technical acceptance (certification) in February to March, then dismantled and rebuilt piece by piece under the ship. The first piece of the ship reached Australian soil in December 2012 in the city of Adelaide. This was taken as a clear sign that all major hurdles for the transport of the entire ship had been overcome.
- 2013: On April 7, 2013, all the large main girders of the transport frame were bolted together under the ship, the side truss girders were only partially built up. After the ship was transferred to the Clipper Ship City of Adelaide on September 6, 2013, it was floated on September 8.
- 2014: On February 3, 2014, the City of Adelaide arrived in the port of Adelaide on board the heavy lift ship Palanpur of the shipping company Harren & Partner .
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships . Verlag Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 , p. 114/15 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page about the RNVA (English)
- ↑ cityofadeleine.org.au
- ↑ cityofadeleine.org.au
- ↑ cityofadeleine.org.au
- ↑ rudder-was-transported-from-scotland
- ↑ cityofadeleine.org.au, date in the Exif data of the corresponding images
- ↑ Report at cityofadelaide.org.au , September 6, 2013 (English)
- ↑ Report at cityofadelaide.org.au , September 8, 2013 (English)
- ↑ Sunderland-built City of Adelaide clipper arrives in Australia in Sunderland Echo , February 4, 2014 (English)
Web links
- Official site of the City of Adelaide (English)