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Tall Ship

This page is under development it will be ready by 1/1/11

Introduction

Ictopus is delighted to offer you another superb historical resource for use in your teaching.

All the documents available to download from this page are renditions of primary source documents relating to a single Tall Ship built at the end of the nineteenth century.

The Glenlee was built in Port Glasgow for the shipping firm of Archibald Sterling and Co Ltd. and was launched in 1896. She is one of only five Clyde built sailing ships still afloat and is recognised as a significant historic vessel having circumnavigated the world four times and navigated Cape Horn 15 times.

She is a three masted steel barque (a sailing vessel with three or more masts), measuring 245 feet in length, 37.5 feet at her widest part and 22.5 feet deep.

There are lots of pictures of the ship and of the original documents in the Pictopus section of this website - look under In the past > Glenlee tall ship.

Downloads

Glenlee Official Log Book - this is the core resource

Tall Ship activities - ideas for using these resources in the classroom
Agreement and Account of Crew - details of crew members in 1912-1913
Bill of Sale - a list of purchases showing what one sailor spent some of his wages on whilst aboard ship
Scale of Provisions - what one sailor had to eat and drink on each day of the week
The Glenlee - general information

Link

The Tall Ship website