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On Wed, 10/29/14, Bruce Johnson <johnson@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Original CT LBB's scoutship vs CT HG scoutship?
 To: "tml@simplelists.com" <tml@simplelists.com>
 Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014, 9:25 AM

 On Oct
 28, 2014, at 9:28 PM, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com>
 wrote:

 >
 > People always cite early 20th century
 tramp steamers as the model for this. But I see it more like
 the small sailing ships which still carried coastal trading
 cargoes well into the past century, particularly along the
 coasts and among the islands of the Mediterranean and
 Caribbean seas . . .

 Michael Palin travelled across the Arabian Sea
 in a dhow in his “Around the world in 80 days”
 documentary; might have even had a sail,this was in 1988. I
 expect this traffic continues today.

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My original observation about 'tramp steamers' probably should've instead referred to the various rather small mercantile sailing ships of the 17th-18th centuries AD, which is what CT is based upon.
(I see MT as based upon a late 20th century AD, post-containerization model)

I do recall reading a semi auto-biography where the author stated that sailing ships carried cargo right up to WWII & were only eliminated by the large numbers of cheap surplus Liberty ships that became avail afterwards.

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