Fire has ripped through the Cutty Sark, reducing the iconic 19th century tea clipper to a charred wreck. Scores of firefighters battled to save the ship but flames 100 feet high engulfed the hull ...
But the industrial revolution in terms of ship design, driven largely by the Scots with coal fired steam propulsion via paddles on wooden ships, then propellors, then steel ships became competitive by ...
Seventy years after Cutty Sark made its final voyage, historians are now looking to hear from anyone who remembers the day it was towed into its final location. The British tea clipper ship was ...
Cutty Sark is an immersive way to find out what life was like on a clipper ship. But it’s not great for toddlers: running around after one meant I missed a lot of the interesting bits. My 4 year old ...