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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.
Since Cutty Sark's arrival to Greenwich, it is thought that more than 17 million visitors have stepped aboard. Before it reached Greenwich, it was first towed to East India Docks where its ...
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 ...
Cutty Sark: 1869 United Kingdom : Museum ship (Greenwich, UK) 280 ft (85 m) Glory of the Seas — 1869 United States (East Boston, MA) Scrapped in 1923 250 feet (76.2 m) The last merchant sailing vessel built by Donald McKay Miako — 1869 United Kingdom (Sunderland) Unlisted in 1912 160.1 ft (48.8 m) Norman Court: 1869 United Kingdom
Cutty Sark made it in 84 days and Thermopylae in 77 days. [12] In 1854–1855, Lightning made the longer passage from Melbourne to Liverpool in 65 days, completing a circumnavigation of the world in 5 months, 9 days, which included 20 days spent in port.
With Cutty Sark and HMS Gannet (built 1878; a sloop-of-war in Chatham), City of Adelaide is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction to survive. [ 3 ] [ note 1 ] City of Adelaide is one of three surviving sailing ships, and of these the only passenger ship, to have taken emigrants from the British Isles (the other ...
Over the weekend, New Jersey Forest Fire Service crews battled a blaze that threatened homes, and photos show just how close the flames got to destroying a family home.