Conservation Plan 3 Significance.pdf - National Maritime Museum

Cutty Sark Conservation Plan vol. 3: Significance
Alterations
1957 — today
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Again, although there has been a constant programme of repair and
replacement, little has been done to alter the physical appearance of
the ship. Works that have affected her visual appearance are:
• insertion of intermediate frames to strengthen the hull
• removal of the emergency escape fitted in the 1954-7 restoration,
but without replacing the cut planking
• compartmentalisation of forward end of ’tween deck to create
office accommodation
• conversion of foc’sle into workshop
• creation of partitioned area on false deck, initially for exhibition
but now used as a rigger’s workshop
• removal of two ventilators at the break in the monkey foc’sle
• freshwater pump relocated
Summary Approximately 95% of Cutty Sark’s hull is Victorian; her
superstructure, masting and rigging date from the 1950s and later.
A full dating of each element of the ship’s structure and fittings is
contained in Conservation Plan volume 1: History of Fabric. A brief
summary is provided on the following pages.