London, Mar. 8.
Captain Richard Woodget, the skipper of the famous clipper ship' Catty Sark, died this week at Burn-Every, Norfolk, at the age of 82. The son of a farmer of Burnham Norton, Norfolk, he was born on November 21, 1845, and before he was 16 went to sea as an apprentice. Tt was a hard training, for the skippers and mates of the sixties had no merey, but Wood-his time in the brig British English, trading to Port Natal, and in mate's certifiente At last, in 1881, oan sie Dona tr book Willis, known as "Old White Hat," of an old ship, the Coldstream. He brought her home in 1885, after making passages which astonished her owner.
Wills thereupon gave Woodget the command of the Cutty Sark. The story of this beautiful vessel has been admirably told by Mr. Basil Lubbock, the chief hi of the old sailing ships, in The Log of the Cutty Sark."
She was built 1869, one of a dozen clippers laid down for the China tea trade. Willis was determined to beat the American crack ship of her time, and he succeeded, for no other sailing ship beat her records, By the time Woodget had her she was in the Australian wool trade, in which she made ten voyages, accomplishing some astonishing runs, details of which are given in Mi Lubbock's book. He quotes C: tain Woodget that the best day she ever did ler his command was 353 knot: the best 11 days was 3,
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