News
22 November 2017
Today, the Cutty Sark is world famous maritime musuem. But back when the ship launched from a Dumbarton shipyard on 22 November 1869, it was an example of amazing innovation.
In her day she was at the cutting edge of ship design. Sleek, beautiful and fast.
In 2012, five years after she was gutted by fire, London’s famous 19th century tea clipper the Cutty Sark reopened to the public.
Quentin talks to Richard Doughty, Chief executive and Ian Bell technical manager of the Cutty Sark trust to find out what damage was caused by the fire and its rescue and how conservation work 6 months later is continuing to put the wind back in her sails.
Plans to resort the clipper ship the Cutty Sark, the fastest ship of her day. The programme looks at an ambitious restoration plan for the ship, which is in dry dock in Greenwich, London, involving computer modelling and electro-chemical techniques to halt her corrosion.
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