Item  #  B0702

Cutty Sark 44"

• 44" long x 11" Wide x 27" High (1:78 scale).  30 Lbs.
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• Plank on frame construction (a painstaking process where each individual plank is added to the hull one at a time).
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as southwest cherry, white orchis wood, birch, maple and rosewood.
• The model rests perfectly on a large slate base between four arched dolphins.
• Masterfully stitched canvas sails.
• No plastic fittings.
• Significant deck detail.

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.