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Tall Ships came to Bervie

 

10th July 1997

A service of re-dedication was held at Linton's memorial at Jubilee Bridge. It was first dedicated In 1989 by round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester. Jim Lacy, of gala organisers Gourdon and Inverbervie Village Enterprise, said, "We had a real extravaganza which is sure to help put Inverbervie on the tourist map."
Singer and entertainer Fiona Kennedy attended with husband Fancis Clark, another great-great-grandson of the designer.

Hercules Linton was born in the village In 1836 and learned his trade at the shipyards in Aberdeen before moving to Dumbarton, nr Glasgow. He spent the final years of his life in the house of his birth in the village's Market Square, where he was a councillor for a time. The Cutty Sark Museum, above the Kondit Bakery, illusrtrates his life and works. He died In 1900.
 
 
 
 
 
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The Visit
The tiny Kincardine port of Inverbervie was the home of Hercules Linton who designed the famous clipper, the Cutty Sark, world beater in the race to bring tea to Britain from the East.

The village had a special gala in his honour on July 10 and visitors will include two Sailing association schooners, the Sir Winston Churchill and the Malcolm Miller, anchored in Inverbervie Bay from noon onwards while the crews attended a party and a variety of events throughout the day.

Also Invited were the Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire and his wife, Lord and Lady Arbuthnott; a great-great-grandson of Linton, Harvey Brettle; and Captain Simon Waite, curator of the Cutty Sark, now in dry dock at Greenwich.

 

 

  

 
 
Facts     William Wallace attacked the nearby Dunnottar Castle, killing nearly all inside.