City of Adelaide leaves Scotland for Australia - via London

[Riverman2903]

One to watch for on the Thames, nothing on the PLA website yet although the track on AIS shows the tug DUTCH PIONEER with an eta at Chatham on 26/9 so is the tow going to be handed over to a local tug or is the destination Thamesport rather than the Thames??

Any information/ideas?



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24179127

A crowd of up to 1,000 people has watched the world's oldest clipper ship leave Scotland for the last time. A pontoon barge supporting The City of Adelaide was towed from the Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine on Friday.

The ship has been there since it was salvaged in 1992, after sinking the previous year in Glasgow's River Clyde. The Adelaide was built in Sunderland in 1864. Its new Australian owners are having it towed to London, where a cargo ship will take it to Adelaide.

The planned start of the journey had been delayed from last week following adverse weather conditions in Ayrshire. The pontoon supporting The Adelaide is now being towed out into the Irish Sea. Over the next seven to 10 days, it will travel round the tip of Cornwall and up into the River Thames. The historic clipper will then be loaded onto a cargo ship for its final journey to Australia.

[Dave Forbes]

Life can be a bitch sometimes , the very day she leaves the Clyde , I couldn't have possibly made it to Irvine...hey ho!!

[Robert J Smith]

Someone mentioned that it was to go up to Greenwich to the Cutty Sark prior to being loaded onto a heavy lift ship to go to Australia. Presume Greenwich will be for publicity and then they will need deeper water to load it for the trip south.

[Robert J Smith]

http://cityofadelaide.org.au/our-news/our-news-articles/107-2013-news/814-duke-of-edinburgh-will-greet-clipper-city-of-adelaide-in-london-on-18-october-2013.html

[Robert J Smith]

Arrived at Chatham

http://www.thamespics.co.uk/2013/09/city-adelaide-chatham/

Regards

Bob

[Robert J Smith]

She will be at Greenwich between 18th & 20th October

http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/data/files/CoA_release_amended101013.pdf

Regards

Bob

[Clydee]

REPORT FROM ABC NEWS 19 OCTOBER 2013

World's oldest clipper ship renamed City of Adelaide
By Europe correspondent Barbara Miller and wires

The world's oldest clipper ship has been renamed City of Adelaide at a ceremony in London overseen by the Duke of Edinburgh.

The City of Adelaide was built in 1864 and carried migrants to South Australia in the late 19th century.

In the 1920s she was renamed HMS Carrick and used as a navy training ship in Scotland, and was left there to rot until a restoration project began.

During the ceremony, Prince Philip bestowed the sailing ship's original name back upon her.

After a long battle the clipper is now returning to Adelaide via London.

It is hoped it will be back in Australia early next year.

Federal support had been held up since the change of government in Canberra, but now has been finalised.

With thanks to Bob Smith for earlier posts to this thread

[Robert J Smith]

Thanks for your support Clyde.

Unfortunately, after all my posts, I doubt if I will be able to get to Greenwich this weekend to see her  

Best regards

Bob