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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.
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. [13]
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: 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 (Glasgow)
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.
Frank George Griffith Carr (23 April 1903 – 9 July 1991) CB, CBE, FSA, MA, LLB, was director of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England from 1947 to 1966 and was responsible for restoring and preserving a large number of ships, such as the Cutty Sark and the Gypsy Moth IV.
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 ...
Hercules Linton. Hercules Linton (1 January 1837 [1] – 15 May 1900) was a Scottish surveyor, designer, shipbuilder, antiquarian and local councillor, best known as the designer of the Cutty Sark and partner in the yard of Scott and Linton, which built her.