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On October 6, 1885, the Cutty Sark was the first to load wool in Sydney and sail south. Soon the Thermopylae began to overtake her. A race ensued between the two "hounds of the seas". Moving south of New Zealand, the Cutty Sark nearly capsized. The big test for sailing ships was to pass Cape Horn, [3] which the Cutty Sark rounded after 23 days ...
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
The Cutty Sark Preservation Society was formed 2 years prior to the reconstruction of the Cutty Sark in 1952. The feedback from English-speaking readers forced Yefremov to "upgrade" the storyline with some new facts from clipper's life. [1] The story popularized the Cutty Sark in the USSR and Russia.
Cutty Sark, built in 1869, in the belief that the Suez Canal and steamships would not take over the tea trade, remains as virtually the sole physical reminder of the tea clipper era that was epitomised by the Great Tea Race of 1866.
Cutty Sark in a photograph sometimes credited to Woodget. Richard Woodget (21 November 1845 – 5/6 March 1928) [1] was an English sea captain, best known as the master of the famous sailing clipper Cutty Sark during her most successful period of service in the wool trade between Australia and the United Kingdom. [2] Grave at St Margaret's ...
The music intensifies as the witches are dancing and, upon seeing one particularly wanton witch in a short dress, Tam loses his reason and shouts, '"Weel done, cutty-sark!" ("cutty-sark": short shirt). Immediately, the lights go out, the music and dancing stop, and many of the creatures lunge after Tam, with the witches leading.
The Cutty Sark is a tea clipper ship built in Scotland, now in permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London Cutty Sark may also refer to: Cutty Sark (whisky), a brand of Scotch whisky "Cutty Sark" (short story), a short story by Ivan Yefremov; Cutty-sark (witch), a character created by Robert Burns in Tam o' Shanter
Between 1973 and 2003 the races were known as The Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races, having been sponsored by Cutty Sark whisky. From 2004 to 2010 the races were supported by the City, Province and Port of Antwerp. The sponsor of the Tall Ships Races 2010–2014 was the city of Szczecin. [1]