Tavy Tars sing James Craig

James Craig is a song written by Rudy Sunde of the NZ based Maritime Crew. Here it is performed by the Tavy Tars, from Devon England, by kind permission of Rudy.

There are many stories, but this ship still exists and still sails the Tasman Sea -- in all her glory as the song says....

Launched in Sunderland in 1874 as the Clan Macleod, she is an iron-hulled ship of 670 tons, Barque style, square-rigged with three masts. For 26 years she carried cargo all over the world before being sold in 1900 to James Craig and re-named and was then used between Australia and New Zealand. Unable to compete with the modern steamships, she was then used as a collier transporting coal until she was abandoned in Tasmania in 1932. She was stripped bare of masts and all fittings and as she was a hazard to other ships, as she floated on the tides around the harbour, a hole was blown in her hull to ground her.

Forty years later a team of enthusiasts decided to restore her and after patching in Hobart she was towed to Sydney in 1981. Twenty years later the restoration was complete and she is now part of the Australian National Maritime Museum based in Darling Harbour, Sydney and is still available to charter.

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