Find Some OLD Ships

[Highlander739]

I wonder how many wooden ships, Victorian or older, are surviving? They can be afloat, or in a dry dock, but let's see how many we can find. I start off with 2 in Bonnie Dundee, RRS Discovery and HMS Unicorn.

The Discovery is the actual ship used to take Captain Scott on one of the most famous expeditions to the Antarctic in 1901 (returning 1904), and the Unicorn is the oldest wooden built British ship still afloat (her keel was laid in 1824)

I know there are others in the UK, but are there more scattered around the world?

[McMaster_de]

The USS Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," is a wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. Named after the United States Constitution, she is the oldest commissioned ship in the world still afloat. (HMS Victory is three decades older, but is permanently drydocked.)
Commissioned: October 10, 1797

http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile561/USS-Constitution---Boston,-MA.htm

[McMaster_de]

HMS Victory is a 104 gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in the 1760s. She is the oldest ship still in commission in the world and the only remaining ship of the line. She sits in dry dock in Portsmouth as a museum ship.
Commissioned: 1778

http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile7757/HMS-Victory.htm

[McMaster_de]

The C.A. Thayer is a schooner built in 1895, now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park .

[McMaster_de]

Gjøa was the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. With a crew of six, Roald Amundsen traversed the passage in a three year journey, finishing in 1906.

The 70ft square-sterned 48 ton sloop was built by Kurt Johannesson Skaale in Rosendal, Norway in 1872, the same year Amundsen was born. She was named Gjøa after her owner's wife.

[shrinkingman]

The Cutty Sark is the only surviving tea clipper in the world; she was launched in 1869 and traveled between Britain and the Orient. She was built by John "White Hat" Wills, who wanted the ship to be the fastest clipper supplying tea from China, she broke the world sailing record by completing the trip in only 107 days.

Can be found in King William Walk, Greenwich, London.

[cermo]

Here's the C.A.Thayer's sister ship, the Wawona, rotting in Seattle.

[cermo]

U.S.S. Constellation in Baltimore Harbour (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile879/USS-Constellation.htm)

[Highlander739]

Well, I should have known how fast this would be answered....... Has anyone found some Spanish, French or Portuguese ones

[cermo]

The last sail-powered frigate and the last warship in the Portugese navy, Fernando II e Gloria (http://www.museumarinha.pt/museu/eng/templates/canal.aspx?idc=135) , now open to the public for tours in Lisbon.

[cermo]

The af Chapman, originally called the Dunboyne and launced in 1888, now a youth hostel in Stockholm, Sweden.

(edit) Whoops. Iron, not wooden. Sorry.

[Highlander739]

The Cutty Sark is the only surviving tea clipper in the world; she was launched in 1869 and traveled between Britain and the Orient. She was built by John "White Hat" Wills, who wanted the ship to be the fastest clipper supplying tea from China, she broke the world sailing record by completing the trip in only 107 days.

Can be found in King William Walk, Greenwich, London.


Afraid not. Up in sunny (?) Scotland, they have another clipper (the City of Adelaide, later named The Carrick) which was built in Sunderland in 1846. Unfortunately I can't find the b***er yet, but here's another oldie up on the Clyde, the Glenlee. Ok, she's steel, but still looks good.

Oh, here's 2 links to sites about the Adelaide but until Irvine is in hi-res, we won't see her........... http://www.worldshiptrust.org/save.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/4683044.stm

[markhintnorth]

[QUOTE=McMaster_de]HMS Victory is a 104 gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built in the 1760s. She is the oldest ship still in commission in the world and the only remaining ship of the line. She sits in dry dock in Portsmouth as a museum ship.
Commissioned: 1778

But even older (but definately not in such good condition!) is HMS Mary Rose. This was the flagship of King Henry VIII - which sank, in the middle of the Solent. She now sits in the ship hall (the big white building just to the north east of HMS Victory), undergoing archeological reconstruction and investigation. Open to the public though. So you can't actually see her in GoogleEarth . . .