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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.
Seventy years after Cutty Sark made its final voyage, historians are now looking to hear from anyone who remembers the day it was towed into its final location. The British tea clipper ship was ...
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 ...
Fire Date Probable cause Refs SS Normandie: 1942 sparks from a welding torch, during conversion to troopship MS Bergensfjord: 1980 fire broke out during reconstruction work [how?] [29] Cutty Sark: 2007 industrial vacuum cleaner was left on overnight and overheated; 24-hour firewatchers were absent and keeping false inspection logs [30] [31] USS ...
A joke referencing the term “fire crotch” has been removed from the digital version of 2024’s “Mean Girls” after Lindsay Lohan publicly took issue with it. “Fire crotch” was ...
In 1938, the clipper Cutty Sark was acquired by the college and berthed alongside Worcester and during the Second World War, some seamanship classes were held in her. In 1954 Cutty Sark left Greenhithe to be docked permanently at Greenwich, where she is now a museum ship.
A 15-year-old girl opened fire in the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday, killing a teacher and a student and wounding six others at the school she had attended ...