Cutty Sark

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title: Cutty Sark
text: Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. She was named after the short shirt of the fictional witch in Robert Burns' poem Tam o' Shanter, first published in 1791. After the big improvement in the fuel efficiency of s
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description: British clipper ship, on display at Greenwich, England
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark
date created: 2003-01-31T04:50:53Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T18:32:50Z
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