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Cutty Sark

Royal Borough of Greenwich, United Kingdom

Cutty Sark in Greenwich is one of the last and fastest tea clippers ever built, launched in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line.

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Illustrative photo, not Cutty Sark. Photo: Mustafa Yiğit / Unsplash
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LOCATIONRoyal Borough of Greenwich

United Kingdom

About Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship built in 1869 on the River Leven at Dumbarton, Scotland, for the Jock Willis Shipping Line. She was one of the last tea clippers built and one of the quickest, the product of a long period of design development before steamships took over the trade routes.

Her name comes from Robert Burns's 1791 poem Tam o' Shanter, in which a witch called Cutty Sark, dressed only in a short shift, chases Tam on his horse and catches its tail at the Brig o' Doon. Today the ship is a striking sight in Greenwich.

Highlights

  • Built at Dumbarton in 1869
  • One of the fastest tea clippers
  • Named after a witch in a Robert Burns poem
  • Indoor, good for rainy days

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