There is no fate more uncertain than that of a tired and unemployable pensioner. Certainly no veteran alternated between such extremes of hope and despair as the Cutty Sark, the famous China clipper, launched in glory, navigated in triumph, lost in oblivion and rescued by a friendly soul who formerly sailed in her.
Reports have been revived regarding the disposal of this vessel since the death of her owner, Captain Wilfred H. Dowman, who bought her from the Portuguese in 1922 when he recognized beneath the dirt, grime and tthe cruel malformations wrought by fan unsympathetic owner the stately beauly and dignity of the clipper in which he had served and which was tone of the most magnificent sailing Vessels ever built. Captain Dowman ied recently on a trip in which he sought to recover his health and immediately the fate of the Cutty Sark became a question among seafaring men who knew and loved the vessel and others who knew her only by repute. Since she was secured from her Portuguese owners the Cutty Sark has been anchored in Falmouth Har-hour but since then Mrs. Dowman has moved {o Weymouth, but it is pleasing to know that Mrs. Dowman has given the assurance that the clipper Will not be broken up although the vessel's future has not been decided. Tt is 65 years ago since the Cutty Sark sailed down the Clyde on her way {0 the sea just as a larger but none the less magnificent sister sailed down three weeks ago bearing in her charge the high hopes of British mercantile pre-eminence, but few vessels have become enshrined in the imagination so firmly as the Cutty Sark known from Shanghai to the London River and from Sydney to the East India Docks and still holds her head proudly.
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