The Clipper Ship City of Adelaide 1864 Museum Port Adelaide South Australia @Around Australia

[@silicononsapphire5102]

As an ex-Sunderland shipbuilder, I'm pleased that someone is at least trying to save her. Sunderland Council didn't show the slightest bit of interest when we tried to rescue her. I hope you're following the original building methods where you can during your restoration. Good luck with the project to all of you.

[@andrewkinsey8754]

You guys are amazing! Greeting from the UK and thanks for keeping this heritage alive!

[@gracesmith6199]

I saw this ship leaving Irvine,it was a sight to see. Glad your looking after her. Good job all round everyone !

[@wallaceshackleton1889]

That's where the Carrick came from. Every day is a school day. I always knew it as the Carrick Club, tied up in Glasgow you years.

[@JohnSmith-iv5wy]

What a fantastic and brilliant project. Well done to the organizers and my deepest respect to all the volunteers working on this project. This ship represents not only South Australian History but Australia History, it is a National Treasure for Australians.

[@h2energynow]

250,000 people who can trace their relatives back to it. That should be your source too for helping restore this amazing ship.

[@bearsagainstevil]

great piece of Australia's history glad you guys have it

[@billbaynes3432]

Now that is interesting! I visited a friend who lived in Adelaide but he never took me to see this!

[@southerneruk]

I hope one day you be able to have her back on the water on a full set of sails, I was part of a consultum that that put a bid in for the Cutty sark, when the owners were going bankrupt, We wanted to get her back to sailing, but we were refused, and she was sold to another consultum that would leave her at the same place, after that under the new owners she caught on fire, fire damage was so much she would never see the water again. Sad

[@bmortloff]

Girl is so cute.

[@stephenfraser8742]

So chuffed that the Cutty Sark-recently ravaged by fire has this surviving older bruv down under.Way things are going the City of Adelaide might be requisitioned as an isolation hospital once more.Were ever ships built more magnificent than these?

[@catey62]

How are things going with the Cutty Sark? hope she is being restored and preserved there as well. both ship are an important part of our maritime history.

[@themanftheworld8439]

This clipper ship was built in my home city of Sunderland,North East England,in 1864.Sunderland Maritime Group tried in vain to return it to its birthplace on the River Wear but were given no help from the disinterested Sunderland Labour Council.😪

[@egdiryellam68]

Sounds like sour grapes to me.

[@themanftheworld8439]

@@egdiryellam68 not at all.Just a missed opportunity to restore Sunderland city cultural heritage.

[@silicononsapphire5102]

@@egdiryellam68 Not sour grapes mate, just that fact that Sunderland Council has no vision and hate local history. If theres nothing in it (££££££) for them, they don't want to know.

[@simon-oy6um]

As nelson said harbours rot ships and men 🙂

[@Rene-up1dl]

Can barely hear the guy and the music almost finishes him off

[@georgeh9967]

saw it as a wreck in Irvine a decade ago ,moved 7 years ago 2017 ,still a wreck . 2020 in Australia still a wreck. and through lack of money and a coming recession likely to still be a wreck a decade from now.

[@heartland96a]

At least this group is TRYING , the huge cost the land owner cost them surely had delayed what work could have been done but they are still working

[@Drobium77]

yes, but it's a preserved wreck now. and it's not gonna get any worse. time is of no consequence

[@markmark2080]

I look at that "wreck" and only see the beauty of what she was in her glory days.

[@romandybala]

Old man dreaming. 30 years ago I visited the Port of Adelaide and saw a basiically original area . Obviously there was no money at the time to pull the suburb down so it reached us today in almost unchanged condition. Great for us old dreamers but now the money has come and the site will become a grey highrise horror. like Sydney and Melbourne. Sadly, because Australia is relatively new, in a white settler sense, we are afraid of our somewhat poor early white history so we have no connection to that history.Port Aelaide has a wonderful seafaring history like other Australian states but the money rules and what replaces the history is commercialism.Imagine Melbourne, founding city of Victoria, we had a fantastic Maritime Museum and the gov sold off all the donated exhibits and the current site is now an enclosed wasteland which the developers and the state government wish would disappear.State and federal government needs to support this part of our history but sadly this isnt the case. It wont happen. The best thing to happen would be a fire, the state will cry some crocodile tears for a day or two then on with the "modernisation" of the whole port area. The dream will die with the old people. Like me.

[@hashamagraw]

I LOVE the Port, I'm with you, I pay close attention to old empty sheds and land etc, waiting to see it knocked down for some hideous wank of a building that you can't even figure out where the front door is

[@michaelmacauley3875]

As much as the group are trying to save her I think once it's on land it will be begining of the end for her 😰...hope I'm wrong 💪💪

[@matthewmcclaren8758]

It’s never going in the water again apparently (could be wrong)

[@catey62]

I think because of her age, and the neglect she suffered before coming back to Australia, it would cost too much to make her seaworthy again. the main thing is, she has been saved and will be preserved for future generations to see and appreciate.

[@johngrantham8024]

For goodness sake, take the awful musak off.

[@normanbraslow7902]

She is not a true clipper. Sorry, she is not. Her lines are just not quite right. Her entry does not have the proper curves, and her stern is too blunt. Clippers were built about 15-20 years earlier. A better description would be a British version of the American Downeasters. Fuller body, not quite as fast. Some would call her a "medium clipper". But she cannot be called a true clipper.

[@siggesaltens2663]

There is a guy working there, his name i understand, is Sven. is he some sort of a scandin🌵🌵🌵🌵vian?