Cutty Sark Archives - Baird Maritime

August 27, 2020

REMINISCENCES | The ship’s parrot

Written by Kent Stewart on August 27, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

This is a true story about a sea-going parrot. His name was Rocky and he sailed on the ANL’s Yarra River on the Weipa to Gladstone run in the 1970s. Never one to ruffle ..

June 25, 2020

BOOK REVIEW | Ship – 5,000 Years of Maritime Adventure

Written by Neil Baird on June 25, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Book Reviews, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Featured, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Fishing Boat World Features, Ship World Features, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

A big, thick, glossy and beautifully illustrated book in the usual DK (Dorling Kindersley) mould, this offers an excellent overview of almost five millennia of maritime h ..

April 24, 2020

REMINISCENCES | Australian shipping – the early days

Written by Kent Stewart on April 24, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Featured, Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Dry Cargo World, Ship World Features, Work Boat World Features.

One winter night in 1889, the sleek new P&O mail steamer Britannia was making her way up the east coast of Australia, at a very respectable 15 knots, when the mate on ..