purchased the Cutty Sark back from the Portuguese; their friendship sprang from examining the work log of the Cutty Sark. He wrote two works that deal with that famous clipper: The Log of the Cutty Sark and Sail: The Romance of the Clipper Ships. Basil Lubbock died on 3 September 1944 at Monks Orchard, East Blatchington, Sussex, aged 67. His wife, Dorothy, died soon after, on 15 November, of the same year. Legacy Lubbock is not regarded as a completely reliable source as a historian. His books had no footnotes or bibliographies, as was common at the time. He relied on correspondence and interviews with captains and crewmembers, rather than documents and fact-checking. He sometimes confused the names of ships and captains, or gave incorrect dates. However, Lubbock's correspondence and interviews are themselves a unique source. Some of his books are still in print and their contents are often quoted by others. His book The China Clippers was an inspiration for All the Tea in China by Kyril Bonfiglioli. Works Round the Horn Before the Mast, 1902 Nineteenth Century Dramatic Stories of Atlantic Crossings, 1905 Jack Derringer, A Tale of Deep Water, 1906 Deep Sea Warriors, 1909 The China Clippers, 1914 The Colonial Clippers, 1921 Cruisers, corsairs & slavers : an account of the suppression of the picaroon, pirate & slaver by the Royal Navy during the 19th century, 1922 The Blackwall Frigates, 1922 The Log of the Cutty Sark, 1924 Adventures by Sea from Art of Old Time, 1925 The Western Ocean Packets, 1925 The Last of the Windjammers, two volumes, 1927, 1929 Sail, The Romance of the Clipper Ships (illus. Jack Spurling, ed. F. A. Hook), three volumes, 1927, 1929, 1936 The Down Easters. American Deep-water Sailing Ships 1869-1929, 1929 Bully Hayes, South Sea Pirate, 1931 The Nitrate Clippers, 1932 The Opium Clippers, 1933 The Coolie Ships and Oil Sailers, 1935 The Arctic Whalers, 1937 External links The works of Basil Lubbock, National Library of Australia Biography by Joshua Rigsby Biography at Naval Marine Archive The Basil Lubbock photo and autograph album, 1914-1915, The Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum References 1876 births 1944 deaths People educated at Eton College British maritime historians 20th-century British writers British Army personnel of World War I British Army personnel of the Second Boer War People from East Blatchington English male sailors (sport) People of the Klondike Gold Rush British Merchant Navy personnel Royal