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Letter To The Editor: Maldwin Drummond, Interim Chairman, Cutty Sark Trust
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><font size="3">10<sup>th</sup> February, 2010</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><strong>THE CONSERVATION AND DISPLAY OF THE CUTTY SARK</strong></span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">"Andrew Gilligan on Sunday" (7th February) argues for a new team without realising this has already been achieved. As Interim Chairman of the Trust, I was tasked to look again at the project, for I have had experience as Chairman of <em>HMS Warrior </em>and the Maritime Trust's many successes. In our new approach, Lord Sterling and others have strengthened the Board. Lord Sterling has assembled a highly professional management team who will deliver the project.</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Why lift the ship? This was driven by two imperatives.</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The ship’s speed and fame is due to the shape of her extraordinary hull. This <u>must</u> be seen, not buried in a dank dock.</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The ship had begun to “sit down” and slump over her keel.</span></div>
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<div align="justify"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">After exhaustive professional consideration, the best engineering solution is to support her hull on a collar. The Cutty Sark will be shown at her best in this iconic scheme and the success in raising further monies, in difficult times, demonstrates the strength of support. </span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Maldwin Drummond</span></div>
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Cutty Sark: Out Of The Ashes
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<p><strong><font color="#000000" size="3">The History Channel: Tuesday 16th February 2010, 8pm</font></strong></p>
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<p><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><strong>On the 140th anniversary of the Cutty Sark’s maiden voyage, and for the first time on television, Ben Fogle presents the full story of this world-famous ship and the dramatic bid to save her.Many believed the infamous fire of May 2007 spelled doom for the Cutty Sark, but using exclusive access, this programme explains the true context and consequence of that disaster.<o:p></o:p></strong></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><strong>Her story begins in 1869, launched from a Dumbarton slipway and bound for the lucrative Chinese tea trade. It was the age of the famous ‘tea races’, in which the clippers (merchant ships built almost purely for speed) competed to be first back to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> with the new tea crop. The clippers were the fastest commercial sailing ships ever built, and the Cutty Sark was the fastest and most famous of them all. Her speed and grace made her a legend in her own time. <o:p></o:p></strong></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><strong>In her long life she has faced the scrapyard many times. But thanks to good fortune and the hard work of her admirers, today she is the last tea clipper to survive. For fifty years she has stood in dry dock in <st1:city w:st="on">Greenwich</st1:city>, where she has become a top tourist attraction and famous <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city> landmark. She is, not least, a unique link to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Britain</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s proud maritime past.<o:p></o:p></strong></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><strong>In 2006, having outlived her life expectancy by more than a hundred years, the future of the Cutty Sark was uncertain. Old age and decay were slowly pulling her apart. In response, the Cutty Sark Trust, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, launched an ambitious conservation project.<o:p></o:p></strong></font></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><strong>HISTORY filmcrews have had exclusive documentary access to this project from day one, and have covered every major development. From its early stages, to the dramatic fire of 2007 and beyond, we follow the Cutty Sark Trust’s bid to preserve this unique ship for future generations. We also tell the dramatic story of her working life - a tale that includes record-breaking voyages to the far side of the world, mutinies, suicide, and murder.<o:p></o:p></strong></font></font></p>
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Funding for Cutty Sark restoration confirmed with work to be completed in time for 2012 and creation of ‘Royal Borough of Greenwich’
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<div>4 February 2010</div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%" align="center"><strong><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Funding for Cutty Sark restoration confirmed with work to be completed in time for 2012 and creation of ‘Royal Borough of Greenwich’</span></strong></div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The historic clipper Cutty Sark will be restored to its former glory following news today that the final parts of the £46 million funding package are now in place. Conservation of Cutty Sark will be finally completed at Greenwich next year. </div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Final funding to finish the project in time for Olympic and Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012 has been provided by a £3 million grant from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Cutty Sark’s mast and spars will again tower over the World Heritage Site, now to be celebrated as ‘The Royal Borough of Greenwich’.</div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“Everyone was shocked and saddened as we watched those terrible images of fire on the news. People wondered then whether Cutty Sark could ever be brought back to its former glory. Well, today’s announcement means that the historic clipper - that much-loved part of our maritime heritage since it was installed at Greenwich more than 50 years ago - will once again be open to the public – and in pristine condition – in time for the Olympics: yet another jewel for visitors in 2012 to enjoy.” </div>
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<div>Culture Minister Margaret Hodge said:</div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“The £3m grant from my department is the final link in a chain that has included magnificent donations from the Heritage Lottery Fund, The London Borough of Greenwich, The Greater London Authority and thousands of private donors. </div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“Lord Sterling’s work in leading the campaign to raise funds has been really successful and it is thanks to all his efforts that we have reached this happy outcome. I am also grateful for all the work Councillor Chris Roberts has done at Greenwich to provide such significant support. I look forward to welcoming Cutty Sark back as an integral part of the Greenwich World Heritage Site when we play host to visitors from all over the world in two years time.” <span> </span></div>
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<div>Cllr. Chris Roberts, Leader of Greenwich Council said:</div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“In Greenwich we are tremendously proud of our heritage, of which Cutty Sark is an iconic symbol. After the fire it was clear that our sense of place was shared by people across the world. We are proud to play our part in restoring and conserving the ship for generations to come. I would also like to pay a personal tribute to the Late Chairman, Maurice de Rohan OAM, who was such an inspiration to everyone involved in this project.”</div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson said: </div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">"Since entering her dry dock in Greenwich in the fifties, the Cutty Sark has been as synonymous with a proud maritime heritage as it has with the borough of Greenwich. I am thrilled that the reconstruction and restoration of the world's last surviving tea clipper is progressing with speed since the damaging fire in 2007, and proud that the Greater London Authority is playing its part in putting this wonderful landmark back on the map. Fundraising is never easy, especially during a recession, but Lord Sterling and his team have done an exceptional job and I join them in their passion, dedication and commitment to this worthy cause."</div>
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<div>Interim chairman of the Cutty Sark Trust, Maldwin Drummond said: </div>
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<div style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">“As custodians of the ship, my trustees and I are hugely moved by the enormous generosity displayed by so many to ensure that this ship is preserved for future generations. Undeniably, it has been a very difficult year for us, but particular thanks are due to the energetic efforts and persuasive skills of Lord Sterling and to Cllr Roberts, Leader of Greenwich Council, in closing the funding gap.”</div>
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<div><strong>Background Note</strong></div>
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<div>Cutty Sark has weathered many a storm and mishap in her long life – from losses of masts and rudders to murder and suicide. Sold to the Portuguese at the end of the 19<sup>th</sup> century, she was first saved for the nation in 1922, by Captain Dowman of Falmouth. Then in the 1950’s she was rescued, largely through the efforts of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and Frank Carr the then director of the National Maritime Museum, and placed in a purpose-built dry dock at Greenwich.</div>
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<div>She was undergoing major conservation works when Cutty Sark’s troubles returned with the disastrous fire in 2007. This could have been the final chapter if she had not been de-rigged and stripped as part of the works programme. Although the fire was a major set back and caused localised distortion, it also revealed major problems of corrosion of the lower frame. Therefore, a good deal of strengthening was required. However, ninety percent of the original ship remains, and will be once again able to inspire another generation. </div>
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<div>Cutty Sark’s consultants suggested suspending the ship above the dry berth to even out the strains on the hull. The approved scheme not only allows the public to admire the ship’s lines for the first time, and appreciate the reasons for her success in carrying cargo under sail, it also frees up the dock below to be used for education, exhibition and entertainment purposes.</div>
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<div>The plan for conserving the ship, showing her lines and using the space below appealed to many generous supporters who subscribed to match the great assistance and imaginative support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. This ‘iconic scheme’ received the enthusiastic backing of Greenwich Council, soon to be the ‘Royal Borough’, under their leader, Councillor Chris Roberts.</div>
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<div>The London Borough of Greenwich has long realised that the setting of the ship in Cutty Sark Gardens was not only for Cutty Sark, but as a key arrival point and gathering place for people visiting the World Heritage Site which comprises a feast of historic buildings, including the old Royal Naval College, the National Maritime Museum and the Royal Observatory. The new vision for Greenwich includes improvements to Brunel’s Greenwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames, and to make the pier into a proper ferry port. In due course, there is to be a cruise terminal for ocean liners a little further down stream.</div>
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<div>The conservation of Cutty Sark in this splendid new setting will not only allow Hercules Linton’s beautiful design of the ship to be in public view, but will also contribute new life to Greenwich itself. The public will once again be able to see and touch Cutty Sark, which has inspired so many seamen, past and present, when she is once again one of the jewels of the crown of the Royal Borough.</div>
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<div>This has all been made possible by the Heritage Lottery Fund, enthusiastically supported by the London Borough of Greenwich and private donors.<span> Additional funds have been pledged by the Greater London Authority and the DCMS, led by the Minister, Margaret Hodge, with the backing of the Prime Minister himself. This has enabled the £46 million project to be fully funded and to be a major attraction in time for the Olympic Games in 2012. </span></div>
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News Update 27 January 2010
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 1cm">The conservation of the ship is progressing well. The installation of additional strengthening steelwork is at an advanced stage and, despite the recent weather; the painting of Cutty Sark’s wrought ironwork is virtually complete. </div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 1cm">Trials for the reinstatement of the hull planks, conserved in our workshops, have been concluded and we now intend to re-fix the original teak and rock elm strakes. The first of these hull planks, are already back on the site. </div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 1cm">Preliminary groundworks to support the new steelwork and glazed canopy have been progressed. </div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 1cm">The University of Greenwich has worked in an advisory role for the Trust applying computer aided engineering technologies to help inform decisions about the conservation programme. Results have confirmed calculations made by Buro Happold, who are the appointed structural engineers and Cleveland Bridge, the company making the steelwork support system onto which the ship will be hung.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 1cm">The Trust’s next main objective is to lift the ship. We are working towards this end and expect this will happen in summer 2010. </div>
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Monthly Photographic Updates
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<p><strong><font size="2">The Cutty Sark Conservation Project involves dozens of personnel on site, moving between off-site workshops, storage locations and the ship site in Greenwich. Between them, the team handles the numerous stages of conserving <em>Cutty Sark</em> which include packing and storing parts removed from the ship, treatment of the ship’s original fabric, and preventive actions against further decay and deterioration. </font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font size="2">An important part of the process is creating a photographic record of the project so that the work being undertaken can be seen and understood today and in the future.<span> By going to our <a href="http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.gjonoksenppnlohb">monthly updates</a> section you can view the conservation progress.</span></font></strong></p>
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