Cock of the seas

‘Cock of the Seas’.
Cutty Sark
Krakatoa, clippers
 “Cutty Sark” and “Thermopylae”, the most famous of the famous tea clippers.
By Gordon Frickers 76 x 101 cm (30″ x 40″), price  £8,000.00., ex studio, ex frame.
This Painting
The famous tea clipper “Cutty Sark” as a new ship with her greatest rival.
I have aimed to give an impression of the ‘cloud of sail’ tea clippers could set over their sleek, almost delicate looking hulls.
Cutty Sark’s lines are very similar to the famous “Thermopylae“, a ship she was intended to beat, which claimed to be ‘Cock of the Seas’.
Both ships finished their working lives under the Portuguese flag.
Sadly, the beautiful green hull’d of Thermopylae was eventfully deliberately scuttled.
Happily the elegant Cutty Sark is still with us today, open for public viewing at Greenwich London
For several reasons I’ve chosen as our location the Sunda Straights.
Krakatoa 2, [detail]

If you don’t know these ships and the Sunda Strait you are in for a treat if you follow the link to my ‘Further Reading’.

Krakatoa, clippers, detail

I have had a long association with “Cutty Sark“, painted her three times, with the full cooperation of Captain Simon Waite [formally a master with BISNCo] who was then her Captain.

On Cutty Sark with Captain Waite

One version [sold] is available as a fine print on canvas for the look and feel of the original [see Marine Art Prints on this web site], Cutty Sark in her old age, her “Last Departure” .

Last Departure, Fererria ex Cutty Sark

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