When the sleek, beautiful tea clipper Cutty Sark was launched in 1869, built for speed to beat the competition and get the precious early tea harvest back to the European market, she was named for the ...

LONDON, May 21 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The Cutty Sark, a London landmark and the world's last surviving 19th century tea clipper, was severely damaged in a blaze on ...

She is the angry scantily-clad witch who chases Tam the farmer in Scottish hero Robert Burns's classic poem. In Tam O'Shanter, Nannie Dee's lack of clothing saw her nicknamed Cutty-sark, which ...

A blaze which almost destroyed the Cutty Sark has added £10m to the cost of the conservation project for the ship. The project, which resumes next month, had originally required £25m but this will now ...

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A bracing westerly is shaking the rigging and I am feeling distinctly wobbly way up high on the yard arm of what was once the fastest ship in the world. Given that I'm feeling nervous, what on earth ...

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Cutty Sark is preparing to host a new event series, "Cutty Cargo", which looks to promote whisky to a younger audience with a mixture of live music, DJs and street food with a tour across major cities ...

A fire caused heavy damage to the clipper ship Cutty Sark on Monday, leaving one of London’s proudest maritime relics a blackened hulk. Firefighters responded to an alarm at 4:45 a.m. local time at ...

Did you know that London’s most famous sailing ship is named after a shortie nightie? The Cutty Sark, permanently moored on dry land in maritime Greenwich, is so-called because of a poem by Robbie ...