She highlights the early fast passenger-carrying and general cargo trade to the Antipodes. The UK's Advisory Committee on National Historic Ships describes the significance of City of Adelaide in these terms: Having been built in the years prior to Lloyd's Register publishing their rules for composite ships, City of Adelaide is an important example in the development of naval architecture. As this trade peaked at the same time as conflicts in Europe, a great mass of refugees sought cheap passage on the timber-trade ships, that would otherwise be returning empty, creating an unprecedented influx of new immigrants in North America. Īdding to her significance as an emigrant ship, City of Adelaide is the last survivor of the timber trade between North America and the United Kingdom.
City of Adelaide is the only surviving purpose-built passenger sailing ship. Ĭity of Adelaide is one of three surviving sailing ships, and of these the only passenger ship, to have taken emigrants from the British Isles (the other two are Edwin Fox and Star of India). With Cutty Sark and HMS Gannet (built 1878 a sloop-of-war in Chatham), City of Adelaide is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction to survive.
At a conference convened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 2001, the decision was made to revert the ship's name to City of Adelaide. After being served with an eviction notice by the owners of the slipway, the Scottish Maritime Museum was forced to seek the deconstruction of the ship on more than one occasion, while rescue proposals were developed by groups based in Sunderland and South Australia. Restoration work began, but funding ceased in 1999, and from 2000 the future of the ship was in doubt. Carrick was recovered by the Scottish Maritime Museum the following year, and moved to a private slipway adjacent to the museum's site in Irvine. In order to safeguard the vessel, she was protected as a listed building, but in 1991 she sank at her mooring. In 1948, she was decommissioned and donated to the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Club, and towed into central Glasgow for use as the club's headquarters and remained on the River Clyde until 1989 when she was damaged by flooding. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick (to avoid confusion with the newly commissioned HMAS Adelaide), and based in Scotland as a training ship. In 1893, she became a floating hospital in Southampton, and in 1923 was purchased by the Royal Navy. From 1869 to 1885 she was part of Harrold Brothers' "Adelaide Line" of clippers.Īfter 1887, the ship carried coal around the British coast, and timber across the Atlantic. On the return voyages she carried passengers, wool, and copper from Adelaide and Port Augusta to London. Between 18 she made 23 annual return voyages from London and Plymouth to Adelaide, South Australia and played an important part in the immigration of Australia. to transport passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. London - Plymouth - Adelaide - Port Augusta - London (typical 1864–87)Īwaiting restoration at Port Adelaide, South AustraliaĬity of Adelaide is a clipper ship, built in Sunderland, England, and launched on.
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