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Cutty Sark Sailing Ships
Among
the most famous old sailing ships still intact, Cutty Sark was one of
the last clippers built for the China tea in Dumbarton England in 1869., her
hull was of composite construction, with teak planking on iron frames. She never
beat her chief rival, Thermopylae, on the passage home from China. Sailed the
China tea trade until 1873. She then embarked upon twenty years of passages
between England and Australia. After 1895 she served under the Portuguese flag
for twenty-five years. She now belongs to the Thames Nautical Training College
and she stands tall and proud in a dry dock at Greenwich in London.
More online information
Ships
of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Cutty Sark
THE
CUTTY SARK CLIPPER SAILING SHIP,
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