#Cutty_Sark was built in #Dumbarton, #Scotland, in 1869, for a shipping company owned by #John_Willis.To carry out construction, Willis chose a new shipbuilding firm.#Scott_Linton, and ensured that the contract with them put him in a very strong position . . .

The fastest commercial sailing vessels of all time were #clippers, three-masted ships built to transport goods around the world, although some also took passengers.From the 1840s until 1869, when the #Suez_Canal opened and #steam_propulsion was replacing sail, clippers dominated #world_trade. Although many were built, only one has survived more or less intact: #Cutty_Sark, now on display in #Greenwich, southeast #London.Cutty Sark's unusual name comes from the poem #Tam_O_Shanter by the #Scottish_poet #Rohert_Bums.Tam, a farmer, is chased a witch called Nannie, who is wearing a 'cutty sark’ - an old Scottish name for a short nightdress.The witch is depicted in Cutty Sark's figurehead - the carving of a woman typically at the front of old sailing ships.In legend, and in Bums's poem, witches cannot cross water, so this was a rather strange choice of name for a ship . . .

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