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CUTTY SARK models info

44" long x 11" Wide x 27" High (1:78 scale / 325 hours)

general model info
plank on hull 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 light ebony,
rosewood and blackwood.

The model rests perfectly on a large, polished base
between four arched dolphins.

Masterfully stitched canvas sails.
No plastic parts (metal anchors and machine turned brass cannons.
Significant deck detail.

To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such
as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.

CUTTY SARK HISTORY

The Cutty Sark was launched November 1869, in Dumbarton on the Scottish
Clyde. She was built to carry tea in the China Run. Due to a new hull shape
that was stronger, she could take more sail and be catained harder than
any other, the Cutty Sark was the fastest ship taking the Cape of Good Hope
Route. Her name comes from Robert Burns' poem, Tam O' Shanter. Tam meets a
group of witches,

most of whom are ugly, but for Nannie, who is young and beautiful and is
described as wearing only a "cutty sark" (a short chemise or shirt). Her
early years under her first master, Captain George Moodie, saw some
sterling performances. However in the very same year of her launching, the
Suez Canal was opened, allowing steamers to reach the Far East via the
Mediterranean, a shorter and quicker route not accessible to sailing ships,
whose freights eventually fell so much that the tea trade was no longer
profitable.

So Cutty Sark's involvement in the China run was short lived, her last cargo
of tea being carried in 1877. For the next several years, the Cutty Sark was
forced to seek cargoes where she could get them, and it was not until 1885
that she began the second (and more illustrious) stage of her career. The
ship's heyday was in the Australian wool trade, which was overseen by
Captain Richard Woodget, from 1885 to 1895.