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  Academy 1/160 Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark was launched on 23 November 1869, designed to be the fastest merchant clipper in the world.
After WW2, Cutty Sark was placed in a special dry dock where she remains on display at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Since the Cutty Sark was a merchant clipper near the turn of the century (the 20th century that is), she was not armed and therefore her deck is a simple design.
www.internetmodeler.com /2003/january/first-looks/aca_sark.htm   (558 words)

  
 CD Baby: CUTTY SARK: The Story Teller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Cutty Sark were formed in 1996 as part of the Robert Burns bi centennial celebrations by Ronnie Hunter and Danny McClymont.
Cutty Sark's style of Celtic rock is representative of the diversity in Scottish music today and we are sure that you will enjoy their music, genuine originality is a rare commodity and we think that you will find this in the music of Cutty Sark.
Cutty Sark performed their last show on the 12th August 2002 at Pitlochry town hall and would like to thank the fans that supported them over the years.
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 S.O.S. Cutty Sark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Cutty Sark was designed by the well-known Scottish shipbuilder Hercules Linton (1836-1900), and constructed in 1869 by the firm of Scott and Linton at Dumbarton, Scotland.
Cutty Sark is what is called a “composite-built vessel.” That is, her skeleton is formed by a wrought iron frame to which teak and rock elm planking, called “strakes,” were fastened during construction.
Cutty Sark, and her eventual economic demise, is an example of an older form of technology being rendered obsolete by an entirely new kind of technology that simply leaps ahead of the existing state of the art.
www.whiskeyandgunpowder.com /Archives/2007/20070523.html   (2497 words)

  
 Cutty Sark model ship model boat. The Cutty Sark model sailing ship is the perfect nautical gift.
The Cutty Sark was launched on November 22, 1869, in Dumbarton on the Scottish Clyde.
So Cutty Sark's involvement in the China run was short lived, her last cargo of tea being carried in 1877.
For the next several years, the Cutty Sark was forced to seek cargoes where she could get them, and it was not until 1885 that she began the second (and more illustrious) stage of her career.
www.handcraftedmodelships.com /cuttysarkse.htm   (409 words)

  
 Cutty Sark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Clyde built Cutty Sark was, in 1869, one of the last sailing clippers to be built, and she is the only classic clipper still surviving.
She flies signal flags on her ensign staff reading "JKWS", which is the code representing Cutty Sark in the International Signal Code introduced in 1857.
Cutty Sark station on the Docklands Light Railway is one minute's walk away, with connections to central London and the London Underground.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cutty_Sark   (342 words)

  
 Cutty Sark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Cutty Sark never won the Race she was built to take, possibly because — unlike Captain Kemball of the Thermopylae - Captain Moodie was too conscientious a seaman to take the necessary risks.
Cutty Sark steered surprisingly well with her jury rudder but, by this time, Thermopylae was 500 miles ahead.
If ‘Cutty Sark’ is left to deteriorate further, it will be an appalling indictment of the authorities of the nation that built her.
www.boatsyachtsmarinas.com /history/html/cutty_sark.html   (2956 words)

  
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The Cutty Sark first felt the water of the River Clyde on her keel on November 23,1869.
Scotland is also responsible for her name, cutty sark being the wee shirt or short chemise worn by Nannie the witch in Bobby Burn's immortal poem, Tam o'Shanter.
Today the Cutty Sark is restored in a specially built drydock at Greenwich Pier in London where visitors may go aboard her.
www.pielcraftsmen.com /ships/cuttysark.html   (523 words)

  
 Cutty Sark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Cutty Sark was, in 1869, one of the last sailing clippers to be built, and she is the only classic clipper still surviving.
The Cutty Sark was destined for the China tea trade, at that time an intensely competitive race across the globe from China to London, with immense profits to the ship to arrive with the first tea of the year.
The Cutty Sark Trust has stated that unless she is restored she will have to be closed to the public in 2007, and it has launched an appeal to raise £25 million to pay for for a complete renovation and new visitor facilities.
www.titanic-nautical.com /Clipper-Ships-Cutty-Sark.html   (1222 words)

  
 Cutty-sark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cutty sark is 18th century Scots for "short shirt": cutty (a cognate of the English language word cut) is "short, stumpy"; sark (from Old English serce "shirt") is a chemise, undergarment or nightshirt.
Cutty Sark: a British sailing ship, built 1869 in Scotland (by coincidence, the highest and smallest sail on a square rigged ship such as the Cutty Sark was called the "Ladies Pantalettes") and also the tall ships' race named after it.
Cutty Sark: a Scotch whisky, founded 1923; since the label sports a picture of the ship, it will have been named directly from this.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cutty-sark   (475 words)

  
 English Maritime Heritage - Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark's design and speed were well suited to the rough seas of the Southern Hemisphere and between 1885 - 1895 she was untouchable, even beating her old rival Thermopylae on no less than five occasions.
In 1895 Cutty Sark was sold to a Portuguese firm and re-named the 'Ferreira'.
In 1924 Cutty Sark was restored as a Tea Clipper and, on the death of Captain Dowman, was presented by his widow to the Thames Nautical Training College where she became a training ship.
www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /maritime/cutty_sark.htm   (492 words)

  
 Search Results for "Cutty-sark"
Scotch, cutty (short), as cutty spoons, cutty sark, a cutty (little girl), etc., a cutty gun (a pop-gun).
It is a shipbuilding center (the Cutty Sark was fitted out there) and has engineering works.
When the Cutty Sark, one of the swiftest and most celebrated British clippers, was...
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 Fire consumes historic London ship - CNN.com
Standing by the smoldering hull of the vessel, Chris Livett, chairman of Cutty Sark Enterprises, told CNN that although the ship's decks were "unsalvageable", he believed the vessel could be fully restored.
Cutty Sark rose to prominence after leaving London on its first voyage on February 16, 1870, and sailing to Shanghai.
Chief executive of the Cutty Sark Trust, Richard Doughty, described the damage as extensive, but said he was hopeful that crucial infrastructure had survived the fire.
www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/europe/05/21/fire.cuttysark/index.html   (596 words)

  
 THE CUTTY SARK CLIPPER SAILING SHIP, THERMOPYLAE AND OTHER CLIPPER SAILING SHIPS CARRYING TEA AND WOOL CARGO
Chris Livett, chairman of Cutty Sark Enterprises which is repairing the clipper, said at the scene: "From where I stand there is not a huge amount of damage to the planking that was left on.
The Cutty Sark was destined for the tea trade, then an intensely competitive race across the globe from China to London, with immense profits to the ship to arrive with the first tea of the year.
Cutty Sark station on the Docklands Light Railway is one minute's walk away, with connections to central London and the London Underground.
www.solarnavigator.net /history/clipper_ships.htm   (3070 words)

  
 red-duster.co.uk Homepage for the red duster merchant navy maritime information archive
The Cutty Sark won the wool race in 1891 with a passage of 93 days and on 5th November, sailed from Sydney to make the fastest passage of 85 days to the Lizard with Cimba a close second in 87 days.
Together with his wife, who also shared his enthusiasm for the Cutty Sark, Captain Dowman began the task of restoring the old ship to her former glory and thus began the chapter in the history of the ship which still continues today at Greenwich.
Captain Dowman died in 1936 and in 1938 his widow generously presented the Cutty Sark to the Thames Nautical Training College so that she could be used to train both and Royal and Merchant Navy officers.
www.red-duster.co.uk /DOFS6.htm   (1985 words)

  
 Greenwich Council - Leisure & culture - Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark is the last of the great Tea Clippers and situated in the very heart of Greenwich, in a dry dock at the river's edge.
The Cutty Sark was the fastest ship of her day and made many voyages across the seas.
The Cutty Sark's name is Scottish for 'short shirt', a shift worn by Nannie, the bewitching heroine of Robert Burns' poem 'Tam O' Shanter'.
www.greenwich.gov.uk /Greenwich/LeisureCulture/CuttySark.htm   (399 words)

  
 Clipper Cutty Sark. Ship model plans.
Cutty Sark was built for John 'Jock' Willis, a seasoned sailing ship master who had 'swallowed the anchor' and set up as a fleet owner in the port of London.
His previous vessels had not had the performance results he wanted and his ambition for Cutty Sark was for her to be the fastest ship in the annual race to bring home the first of the new season's tea from China.
Here was a virtuoso mariner who 'played' the Cutty Sark like the responsive 'instrument' she was: He knew how to get the last quarter-knot from the ship, and, during his time, she repeatedly made the fastest passage home from Australia.
www.bestscalemodels.com /cuttysark.html   (848 words)

  
 Cutty Sark Motel
She was moved to a specially-constructed dry-dock where she was completely restored and in 1957, opened to the public as a museum.
The term "cutty sark" is a Scottish one, which means a short chemise or shirt.
The Cutty Sark's original figurehead was named "Nannie," based on a poem, "Tam O'Shanter," by Robert Burns.
www.cuttysarkmotel.com /newhistory.htm   (275 words)

  
 The Ship Cutty Sark
The tea clipper Cutty Sark may have been the fastest ship of her day, but the wool trade Cutty Sark obviously was.
And so it is that I'm making a 1:100 model of the Cutty Sark in the rig in which he first saw her, in port almost ready to go.
Grandfather insisted to his dying day that the Cutty Sark was cut down after he left her, and his copy of Lubbock's "The Log of the Cutty Sark", which I now have, contains an indignant correction to this effect.
www.sankey.ws /cuttysark.html   (1121 words)

  
 Cutty Sark Clipper Ship
Cutty Sark was built for John Willis to be the fastest clipper on the China tea trade.
Cutty Sark was launched at Dumbarton on the Clyde on Monday 22nd November 1869.
She was recorded to have reached speeds of 17 and a half knots, her best day's run is recorded at 363 miles, averaging 15 knots, and on one occasion she sailed 2,164 miles in six days and on another 3457 in eleven days.
www.schoonerman.com /cutty_sark.htm   (281 words)

  
 Greenwich England: Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark is named after the short shirt worn by the witch in the poem Tam o' Shanter written by Robert Burns.
The Cutty Sark was designed by Hercules Linton and built in 1869 at Dumbarton, Scotland, by the firm of Scott and Linton at a cost of £16,150.
In 1922 the Cutty Sark was bought by Captain Wilfred Dowman, who restored her to her original appearance and used her as a training ship.
wwp.greenwichengland.com /tourism/cuttysark.htm   (1051 words)

  
 Cutty Sark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Of all her lovely sisters that roamed the seven seas in the golden age of sail, only the Cutty Sark remains to show the world in which we live, what things of grace and beauty were the clipper ships in the fullness of their glory.
The term "Cutty Sark" is a Scottish one, which means a short chemise or shirt.
The last true Capt of the Cutty Sark was named Richard Wooget and it is because of him and his love of photography that 95% of the images of the Cutty Sark survive today.
www.naplak.com /modeling/articles/cutty_sark.htm   (3229 words)

  
 'Suspicious' fire burns historic Cutty Sark - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Cutty Sark, which inspired a popular brand of Scotch, was the world's only surviving example of an extreme clipper, regarded as the ultimate development of a merchant sailing vessel.
Cutty Sark left London on its first voyage on Feb. 16, 1870, proceeding around Cape Hope to Shanghai 3 1/2 months later.
Cutty Sark made its first voyage on Feb. 16, 1870, proceeding around Cape Hope to Shanghai.
usatoday.com /news/world/2007-05-21-cutty-sark_N.htm?imw=Y   (918 words)

  
 Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark (Scots for "short shirt") was one of the last clippers to be built, and the only one still surviving.
The Cutty Sark was then used in the Australian wool trade, and did very well, posting Australia-to-England times of as little as 67 days.
She flies signal flags on her ensign staff reading "JKWS", which is the code representing Cutty Sark.
www.gipsymoth.org /cutty-sark.asp   (346 words)

  
 Wood Model Ships - Cutty Sark Model
The Cutty Sark is perhaps the most famous of the Clipper Ships.
Unfortunately for her, she was built close to the same time as the opening of the Suez canal and could not compete with the steam ships; by 1877 she was obsolete to serve the purpose for which she was designed, carrying tea from China.
The Cutty Sark is today preserved for posterity at a dry dock in Greenwich.
www.model-ship.com /cuttysark.html   (253 words)

  
 Cutty Sark 25 - CigarPass
Cutty Sark 25 year old blended scotch, 91.4 proof, decanter style bottle, tube packaging, not available in the US, about $175 in the UK or Japan.
Cutty has been around since 1923 and is a better known brand here in the States then the UK.
After the master blender is satisfied with the married mixture, Cutty 25 is rebarreled in Sherry casks for six months to a year, unique in blended scotch.
www.cigarpass.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=21851   (811 words)

  
 Cutty Sark closes for £25m restoration | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Cutty Sark, the last surviving tea clipper in the world, closed yesterday for a £25m conservation project to secure the future of a ship which was once the fastest and arguably the most beautiful on the high seas.
Cutty Sark has been an icon in Greenwich and admired by millions of television viewers as the most spectacular landmark on the London marathon route.
Richard Doughty, chief executive of the Cutty Sark Trust, which still has to raise about £6m for the work, yesterday called it "a world class solution".
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1940595,00.html   (544 words)

  
 Revell 1/96 Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark is a full hull model coming with all the masts, spars and sails required to make it look as if it's underway on the high seas.
The original Cutty Sark had copper plates nailed to its lower hull (hence the term 'copper-bottom investment', possibly a reference to the Cutty Sark's lucrative record as a Far East trader), so I did a little research and settled on Humbrol copper, applied with a sable brush.
You begin by gluing in railing along the interior of the gunwales (upper edge of a ship's sides), then move on to the deck and its various fittings, many of which have a fair amount of flash that must be carefully trimmed and sanded, since the pieces are mostly small and delicate.
www.internetmodeler.com /2003/december/ships/Cutty_Sark.htm   (1477 words)

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