Cutty Sark
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Cutty Sark in 2015
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 UK
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| Name: | Cutty Sark (1869–1895) |
| Namesake: | Cutty-sark |
| Owner: | John "Jock" Willis (1869-1895) |
| Ordered: | 1 February 1869 |
| Builder: | Scott & Linton |
| Cost: | £16,150 |
| Laid down: | 1869 |
| Launched: | 22 November 1869 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. George Moodie |
| In service: | 16 February 1870 |
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| Identification: | UK Official Number: 63557 |
| Motto: | "Where there's a Willis away" |
| Fate: | Sold |
  Portugal
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| Name: | Ferreira |
| Namesake: | Joaquim Antunes Ferreira |
| Owner: | Joaquim Antunes Ferreira & Co. (1895-1922) |
| Acquired: | 22 July 1895 |
| Homeport: | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nickname(s): | Pequena Camisola ("Little shirt") |
| Fate: | Sold 1922 |
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Portugal
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| Name: | Maria do Amparo |
| Owner: | Companhia Nacional de Navegação |
| Acquired: | 1922 |
| Homeport: | Lisbon, Portugal |
| Fate: | Sold 1922 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | Cutty Sark |
| Owner: | Wilfred Dowman |
| Acquired: | 1922 |
| Homeport: | Falmouth, Cornwall |
| Fate: | Sold 1938 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | Cutty Sark |
| Owner: | Thames Nautical Training College |
| Acquired: | 1938 |
| Homeport: | Greenhithe, Kent |
| Fate: | Sold 1953 |
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United Kingdom
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| Name: | Cutty Sark |
| Owner: | Cutty Sark Preservation Society |
| Acquired: | 1953 |
| Out of service: | December 1954 |
| Status: | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Clipper |
| Tonnage: | 963 GRT |
| Displacement: | 2,100 tons (2,133.7 tonnes) at 20 ft (6.1 m) draught |
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| Beam: | 36 ft (10.97 m) |
| Propulsion: | 32,000 sq ft sail (3000 hp) |
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| Speed: | 17.5 kn (32.4 km/h) maximum achieved |
| Capacity: | 1,700 tons (1542 tonnes) |
| Complement: | 28–35 |
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.
The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steamships now enjoyed a much shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954 she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display.
Cutty Sark is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). She is one of only three remaining original composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) clipper ships from the nineteenth century in part or whole, the others being the City of Adelaide, which arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia on 3 February 2014 for preservation, and the beached skeleton of Ambassador of 1869 near Punta Arenas, Chile.
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