- Overall dimensions: 20"
long x 4" W x 17" H (1:190 scale). 2
Lbs.
- Our Cutty Sark Tea Clipper is
made with plank on frame construction (a painstaking
process where each individual plank is added to the
hull one at a time).
- This Tea Clipper is built with
rare, high quality woods such as southwest cherry,
white orchis wood, birch, maple and rosewood.
- The model rests perfectly on a
scale wooden base.
- Our Cutty Sark has masterfully
stitched canvas sails authentic to the real Cutty
Sark
- To build this ship, extensive
research was done using various sources such as
museums, drawings, copies of original plans and
photos of the actual ship.
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The Cutty Sark is a clipper ship. Built in 1869, she
served as a merchant vessel (the last clipper to be
built for that purpose), and then as a training ship
until being put on public display in 1954. She is
preserved in dry dock at Greenwich in London, but was
damaged in a fire on May 21, 2007 while undergoing
extensive restoration.
Etymology
The ship is named after the Cutty Sark (Scots: a short
chemise or undergarment). This was the nickname of the
fictional character Nannie (also the name of the ship's
figurehead) in Robert Burns' 1791 comic poem Tam o'
Shanter. She was wearing a linen Cutty Sark that she had
been given as a child, therefore it was far too small
for her. The erotic sight of her dancing in such a short
undergarment caused Tam to cry out "Weel done,
Cutty-Sark", which subsequently became a well known
idiom.
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