SMM were given notice to quit in April 1999, and rental began to accrue. The conference agreed that both organisations should now look to securing funding support for their proposals and an active dialogue would be maintained by all concerned. UPDATE: For the latest information about the City of Adelaide's response to the COVID-19 situation The Clyde Ship Trust was placed in a position of embarrassment, for, being already in debt, it was unable to put forward the funds required for a major salvage operation. In one summer, 1,200 ships were loaded with timber at Quebec City alone. [54][55] Virtual tours of the inside and outside of the clipper were also created during the laser survey. After 1887, the ship carried coal around the British coast, and timber across the Atlantic. However the contract included a penalty clause requiring payment of £50,000 per year should the owner require the museum to vacate the slipway. 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 museum was subsequently evicted from the slipway site, placing the museum under great pressure to remove City of Adelaide and the museum began to seek alternative options for the clipper. The conference concluded that City of Adelaide is one of the most important historic vessels in the UK, but that resources available in Scotland were insufficient to ensure her survival. In September 2013, the ship was moved by barge from Scotland to the Netherlands to prepare for transport to Australia. [48] The DTZ report identified the CSCOAL as the only feasible option which would not involve destruction of the ship. In 1888, City of Adelaide was sold to Belfast-based timber merchants Daniel and Thomas Stewart Dixon, and was used to carry timber in the North Atlantic trade. [29] CSCOAL submitted a tender, though unlike the other tenders its proposal involved removing the ship as a whole rather than in pieces. [citation needed], The timber trade not only brought immigrants to British North America but also played a very important role in keeping them there. Deconstruction of the vessel would involve scientific recording and potential preservation of sections of the ship. The benefit corporation is a legal structure for a business, like an LLC or a corporation. While many of those disembarking from the timber-trade ships headed south to the United States, many stayed in British North America. [67] Representatives of SCARF staged a protest on the day of the ceremony, and stated that they were seeking an export ban which would prevent removal of the ship from the UK. [87], City of Adelaide being welcomed by a piper as she enters the inner harbour of Port Adelaide, 6 February 2014, City of Adelaide aboard Bradley barge in the inner harbour of Port Adelaide, 6 February 2014, City of Adelaide being nudged into her temporary location in Dock 1, Port Adelaide, 6 February 2014, A salute by fire-fighting vessel MV Gallantry for City of Adelaide 's 150th anniversary, 17 May 2014, City of Adelaide 's 150th anniversary cake, 17 May 2014, Scotch College pipe band and highland dancers at City of Adelaide 's 150th anniversary, 17 May 2014, David Brown Clyde Cruising Club presenting SV Carrick bible to Creagh OConnor AM Pt Adelaide. [57], In 2011, donor companies from across South Australia completed fabrication of CSCOAL's 100-tonne, A$1.2-million, steel cradle to be placed under the ship to move her. [32], In 2003 businessman Mike Edwards donated funds for preservation and a feasibility study for the ship's restoration as a tourist adventure sailing ship for Travelsphere Limited. This was completed by the Scottish Maritime Museum in December 2010. During this time, in 1881, the ship was rerigged as a barque. CSCOAL were briefly left "in limbo". Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}34°50′30″S 138°30′31″E / 34.841633°S 138.508736°E / -34.841633; 138.508736. The Scottish Maritime Museum stated that SCARF were welcome to take the ship should they have the money to save her. [26] The ship was identified as part of the UK National Historic Ships Core Collection.[3]. Copyright To facilitate the preservation of the ship, Glasgow District Council applied for Listed Building status. The Sunderland City of Adelaide Recovery Foundation (SCARF) proposed to remove the vessel and store her on private land whilst working on plans to develop a maritime museum around the restored City of Adelaide. The City Engineer's records is a fascinating collection consisting of correspondence, files and drawings, from 1852 to 1982, about the city's infrastructure. The aim of the Maritime Trust and the Scottish Maritime Museum would be that final transfer to either the Sunderland Maritime Trust or the Save the City of Adelaide 1864 Group would take place as quickly as possible. CSCOAL has secured a long term peppercorn lease for the land from the South Australian Government, and plans to develop a seaport village, with City of Adelaide as its centre-piece. Please enter a City, Hotel, State/Province, Country/Region, or Airport Code. Freedom of Information [25] The towing of HMS Carrick upriver from Greenock to Harland and Wolff's shipyard at Scotstoun on 26 April 1948, was known as 'Operation Ararat'. [39], A group from Sunderland subsequently renewed calls to save the ship. The big-money homeless joint executives turn a blind eye. [citation needed], City of Adelaide is of composite construction with timber planking on a wrought-iron frame. This location map shows the former location of the City of Adelaide in Dock One, Port Adelaide, Schools are now regularly bringing groups of students to visit City of Adelaide. A grant of 5,000 pounds was received from the King George's Fund for Sailors and 500 pounds was donated from the City of Glasgow War Fund. No plans were required to be approved by Council prior to the construction work taking place. If you have any questions regarding the City Archives, or the services available, please contact one of the friendly staff. The earliest handwritten minute books (31/10/1840 to 30/3/1874) may be searched here: Please note: the files listed below are very large in size and may take a while to download. [71] Steaming from Cape Town, the voyage strayed from the historic clipper route a final time, calling on Port Hedland, Western Australia (between 23 and 26 January) where Palanpur offloaded six locomotives from Virginia. Details of plans submitted to Council 1881 to 1925 are recorded in the following Plan Registers. [50] In July 2010 The Duke of Edinburgh gave a rare radio interview reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the rescue of the SS Great Britain, and commented on the hideous trap that City of Adelaide was in. On the evening of 6 February she was then moved upstream to Dock 1 in Port Adelaide's inner harbour, where she will remain for 6–12 months until a final location is selected and prepared. The Duke of Edinburgh proposed that The Maritime Trust and the SMM should work in partnership to fund a first phase of work. [71][75] Following the voyage's Western Australia stop, the final leg of City of Adelaide's last passage concluded with arrival at the Outer Harbor of its home port, Port Adelaide, at 6:30 am on 3 February 2014. Meanwhile, CSCOAL utilised the delay by shipping the clipper's timber rudder to South Australia as the 'pathfinder' to explore and test Customs and Quarantine-related issues with respect to exporting from the UK, and importing into Australia. Best of all, the compact nature of the city centre means with a car you can zip around all the local attractions with ease – Adelaide is a place that rewards closer attention. The first cradle components arrived at the Scottish Maritime Museum in January 2012 for assembly on site. Please note that these documents are very large and may take some time to download. Researchers have estimated that a quarter of a million South Australians can trace their origins to passengers on City of Adelaide. [62], The actual transport of City of Adelaide from Scotland to South Australia started in September 2013, when the clipper on her cradle was transferred using self-propelled modular transporters to a barge for transport to Chatham, Kent. The ship spent 23 years making annual runs to and from South Australia, playing an important role in the development of the colony. The records and documents relate mainly to matters connected with the Council’s municipal governance of the city, North Adelaide and the surrounding Park Lands. In 2010, the Scottish Government decided that the ship would be moved to Adelaide, to be preserved as a museum ship, and the duke formally renamed her at a ceremony in 2013. The ship was virtually undamaged. Please note: the file  is very large in size and may take a while to download. It became necessary for other organisations to step in to attempt to prevent the total loss of the ship. [3] [note 1], City 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). In recognition of her significance, until departing the United Kingdom in 2013, City of Adelaide was an A-listed structure in Scotland, part of the National Historic Fleet of the United Kingdom, and listed in the Core Collection of the United Kingdom. Cabins could accommodate first-class and second-class passengers, and the hold could be fitted out for carrying steerage-class emigrants when needed. [30] The council received over 100 objections, including representations from nine significant maritime heritage organisations around the world. (PDF), Register of Notices Received - Building Act 1881 C.1910 - 1925 (PDF), Plan Register - Plans Submitted to the Building Surveyor 1924-36 (PDF), Plan Register - Plans Submitted to the Building Surveyor 1936-56 (PDF). [71] The old ship's journey commenced at 13:15 Central European Time on 26 November 2013, departing Rotterdam, Netherlands on the deck of MV Palanpur. The situation was further exacerbated as over the previous decade and a half, the Irvine River near the slipway had become heavily silted. [citation needed], As timber is a very bulky cargo, it required many ships to carry it from North America to Britain, but there was little demand for carrying goods on the return voyages. [49], In May 2010 Minister Hyslop accepted from Irene Oldfather a copy of a diary kept by James Anderson McLauchlan, a 21-year-old Scot who migrated to South Australia on City of Adelaide in 1874. This serves as a detailed record of the ship, and enabled the transportation cradle to be designed and built with great precision in South Australia. [6] Being a developmental technology in 1864 meant that many of the structural features on City of Adelaide are now regarded as being 'over-engineered', particularly when compared to other later composite ships like Cutty Sark (1869). The studies concluded that it would be more cost-effective to turn City of Adelaide into a static exhibit. Read more... From Wednesday 10 June 2020, the Adelaide City Archives is open on Wednesdays by appointment only, for those requiring access to development information. 1875ITEM0004.3 Licence Register 1946-1954Includes stables, restaurants, hide and skin stores, boats - Torrens Lake, horse and carriage bazaars, explosives and fireworks, private hospitals, chimney sweeps, coffee stalls, markets and fellmongers. [22], In 1923, City of Adelaide was purchased by the Admiralty and towed to Irvine, Scotland, where she was placed on the same slipway that she was to return to in 1992. [citation needed], By the start of the 18th century, Britain had exhausted its supplies of the great oaks that had built the Royal Navy. [23] As the new cruiser HMAS Adelaide had been commissioned only the previous year, to avoid confusion of two British Empire ships named Adelaide the clipper was renamed HMS Carrick. In late November 2013, loaded on the deck of a cargo ship, City of Adelaide departed Europe bound for Port Adelaide, where she arrived on 3 February 2014. Designed for people. Activated edges that integrate with the plaza and are publicly … The impressive water tower located near the railway line holds 250,000 Imperial gallons and was built in 1940 around the time Elizabeth was established. The CSCOAL plan was to transport City of Adelaide to Port Adelaide in South Australia in time for the state's 175th Jubilee in 2011. This includes lodging houses, private hospitals, places of public entertainment, taxi-cab owners, street hawkers, milk vendors, street musicians, newspaper vendors, motor car drivers, boot blacks, and cow keepers. It’s hard to imagine, but there are about 5,000 shelf metres of records stored at the Archives. A celebration for the ship's 150th anniversary was held on 17 May 2014. On 18 April 2007 North Ayrshire Council approved the application to deconstruct of the clipper, subject to the approval of Historic Scotland. The Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide, Martin Haese, signs the Visitor book inside the historic clipper ship City of Adelaide. In November 2018 the wheel fitted to the ship by the Royal Navy in 1923, when it was named HMS Carrick, was unveiled within the City of Adelaide. To help your research we've listed a guide to some of the registers below: 1875ITEM0001 Register of Licences including cow keepers and milk sellers - 1888-1909Includes also marine stores, chimney sweeps, horse and carriage bazaars, public amusements, offensive substances, explosives, coffee and other stalls, shoe-blacks stands, cow keepers, milk sellers, hawkers. [53], A detailed bathymetric / hydrographic survey of the River Irvine had been previously undertaken to develop the strategies for recovering City of Adelaide from the riverbank. [29] Faced with these potential demands, and unable to find a buyer for the vessel, in May 2000 the trustees of the Scottish Maritime Museum applied to North Ayrshire Council for listed building consent to deconstruct City of Adelaide. [61] Sunderland-based SCARF threatened legal action towards CSCOAL, and built a wooden replica rudder as a protest. [64], Meanwhile, the South Australian media reported that the departure to Australia could not be confirmed. In addition, you can view the following collections, not yet digitised, by searching the archives. City of Adelaide is a clipper ship, built in Sunderland, England, and launched on 7 May 1864.It was built by William Pile, Hay and Co. for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. Her composite construction illustrates technical development in 19th shipbuilding techniques and scientific progress in metallurgy and her self-reefing top sails demonstrate the beginnings of modern labour saving technologies. In 1999 all work on City of Adelaide stopped and the shipwrights were moved to other projects. Please contact us to book stays longer than 89 days. Fletcher's Slip was for many the preferred site,[74] but other sites such as Cruickshanks Corner and the Queens Wharf near Hart's Mill were considered. The lack of large trees was problematic as they were a necessity for masts for both war and merchant shipping. A thriving timber import business developed between Britain and the Baltic region but was unpopular for economic and strategic reasons. Most were named after persons instrumental in the foundation of the colony. They comprise bundles of annual correspondence received by the City Council about: In addition there are reports of early Council officials like: This is a priceless collection of old documents which are mostly in remarkably good condition for their age. [citation needed], City of Adelaide ended her sailing career in 1893, when purchased by Southampton Corporation for £1750 to serve as a floating isolation hospital. City of Adelaide was built in 1864 before Lloyd's Register recognised and endorsed composite ships in 1867. The Clipper Ship Board has determined that it will be used to recreate the Captain's quarters within the restored saloon.[83]. 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