News Update 27 January 2010
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By Nathan Saker in NEWS Published: Wednesday, 27 January 10 - 12:49 PM (GMT) Last Updated: Friday, 21 May 10 - 10:52 AM (GMT) |
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The conservation of the ship is progressing well. The installation of additional strengthening steelwork is at an advanced stage and, despite the recent weather; the painting of Cutty Sark’s wrought ironwork is virtually complete.
Trials for the reinstatement of the hull planks, conserved in our workshops, have been concluded and we now intend to re-fix the original teak and rock elm strakes. The first of these hull planks, are already back on the site.
Preliminary groundworks to support the new steelwork and glazed canopy have been progressed.
The University of Greenwich has worked in an advisory role for the Trust applying computer aided engineering technologies to help inform decisions about the conservation programme. Results have confirmed calculations made by the appointed structural engineers and the company making the steelwork support system onto which the ship will be hung.
The Trust’s next main objective is to lift the ship. We are working towards this end and expect this will happen in summer 2010.
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