Cutty Sark Wallpapers

Cutty Sark - Sailing Ship; photo wallpapers: The Clyde-built Cutty Sark was, in 1869, one of the last sailing clippers to be built. She is preserved in dry dock at Greenwich in London, but was damaged in a fire on 21 May 2007 while undergoing extensive restoration. The ship is named after the fictional character "Cutty-sark" (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment[1]), an erotic dancing witch in Robert Burns' 1791 comic poem Tam o' Shanter. She was designed by Hercules Linton and built in 1869 at Dumbarton, Scotland, by the firm of Scott & Linton, for Captain John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis, and launched November 23 of that year. The Cutty Sark was destined for the tea trade, then an intensely competitive race across the globe from China to London, with immense profits to the ship to arrive with the first tea of the year. However, she did not distinguish herself; in the most famous race, against Thermopylae in 1872, both ships left Shanghai together on June 18, but two weeks later Cutty Sark lost her rudder after passing through the Sunda Strait, and arrived in London on October 18, a week after Thermopylae, a total passage of 122 days. Her legendary reputation is supported by the fact that her captain chose to continue this race with an improvised rudder instead of putting into port for a replacement, yet was only beaten by one week. In the end, clippers lost out to steamships, which could pass through the recently-opened Suez Canal and deliver goods more reliably, if not quite so quickly, which as it turned out was better for business. Cutty Sark was then used on the Australian wool trade. Under the respected Captain Richard Woodget, she did very well, posting Australia-to-Britain times of as little as 67 days. Her best run, 360 nautical miles (666 km) in 24 hours (an average 15kt, 27.75 km/h), was said to have been the fastest of any ship of her size. In 1895 Willis sold her to the Portuguese firm Ferreira and she was renamed Ferreira after the firm, although her crews referred to her as Pequena Camisola ("little shirt", a straight translation of the Scots "cutty sark"). In 1916 she was dismasted off the Cape of Good Hope, sold, re-rigged in Cape Town as a barquentine, and renamed Maria do Amparo. In 1922 she was bought by Captain Wilfred Dowman, who restored her to her original appearance and used her as a stationary training ship. In 1954 she was dry-docked at Greenwich. Cutty Sark is also preserved in literature in Hart Crane's long poem "The Bridge" which was published in 1930.[br]General specifications: Like many ships of her era, the Cutty Sark had a wrought iron frame structure covered by wooden planking.[br] - Tonnage: 921 tons (935.8 tonnes)[br] - Hull length: 212.5 ft (64.8 m)[br] - Beam: 36 ft (11 m)[br] - Draft: 21 ft (6.4 m)[br]Sails:[br] Fore:[br] - fore course 21.0 yd (19.2 m)[br] - lower topsail 16.8 yd (15.4 m)[br] - upper topsail 14.6 yd (13.4 m)[br] - topgallant 11.5 yd (10.5 m)[br] - royal 9.4 yd (8.6 m)[br] Main:[br] - main course 21.6 yd (19.8 m)[br] - lower topsail 18.5 yd (16.9 m)[br] - upper topsail 16.8 yd (15.4 m)[br] - topgallant 114.2 yd (13.0 m)[br] - royal 10.4 yd (9.5 m)[br] Mizzen:[br] - mizzen course 17.4 yd (15.9 m)[br] - lower topsail 14.9 yd (13.6 m)[br] - upper topsail 13.4 yd (12.3 m)[br] - topgallant 11.0 yd (10.1 m)[br] - royal 8.2 yd (7.5 m)[br] - spanker 14.1 yd (12.9 m).[br]

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