" Cutty Sark " Do you know anything about it without looking it up?

Question

" Cutty Sark " Do you know anything about it without looking it up?

Answer 1

Fast tea clipper, Greenwich, burnt.

Answer 2

'Twas a ship that burned down. It carried tea. David Mitchell had a rant about it on last year's Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

Answer 3

it got torched!!

Answer 4

wasnt it a ship that got burned down,

Answer 5

I know it was a ship :) 10 points please. Thanks in advance.

Answer 6

Yes it is a tea clipper moored on the Thames at Greenwich I believe. It's name derives from a line in a Robert Burns poem and translates from Scots Gaelic as "short shirt."

Sorry, best I could do without looking it up, I'm so tired.

Answer 7

Ok deary. Let's see how good I do without verifying my facts...

The Cutty Sark was built in the late 1860's. She was a Tea Clipper and was the last one built, as the Suez Canal opened around the same time and the Steamers won out, being able to deliver tea more efficiently and quickly than sailing around the Cape.

She then went into the Australian wool trade. Being able to run between Australia and Britain in as few as 67 days, She became known as the fastest ship her size.

The Cutty Sark Society (now the Cutty Sark trust) was set up by it's current President, Prince Phillip in the early 1950's to preserve the ship.

She was nearly lost in a tragic 2007 fire. Miraculously, her iron hull did not warp and efforts continue to restore her to her former glory.

Her name comes from the witch in Rabbie Burns' poem "Tam O' Shanter, of which the Scottish idiom "Well done Cutty-sark" comes from.

Her name and likeness also appear on a blended Scotch Whiskey.

Answer 8

Nice whiskey

Answer 9

I remember it burnt down, It was also the name of a dormitory in my boarding school  

Answer 10

A Scottish ship from the 1800's. Also great scotch.

Answer 11

It was a clipper that burned

It is also a type of chemise fron old Scotland

And last its a scotch

Answer 12

My memories are it was a clipper and carried tea from the west indies to glasgow, was I think built on the Clyde and returned there before turned into either a club or a resturant before fire damaged her a few years ago  

Answer 13

Last of the great 'Tea clippers'

Answer 14

Yes,A tea clipper that plied it`s trade between the UK and India/China,was the fastest ship of her kind in the world,restored in London

Answer 15

An old ship, methinks. I suspect yellow...

Answer 16

Without looking it up it is a boat that is near Greenwich and it got burned down the other year.

Answer 17

  a find whiskey

Answer 18

it was built by dennys shipyard in dumbarton, my home town, its also a local brand of whisky  

Answer 19

A three masted clipper ship, built in Scotland in the 1860s, of wood on iron frames.  The Cutty Sark carried first tea from China, and then, when that trade passed to steamships, wool from Australia.  The Cutty Sark, and the other clippers, were the fastest working sailing ships ever built - they often sailed past steamers, as they could make 15-18 knots to a typical cargo ship's 8 or 9 in those days.

I believe she is the last of the clipper ships to have survived - there are other original sailing ships still with us, but they were built later, and of steel.  She has been in dry dock at Greenwich, certainly since the 1950s, maybe before. Burned by vandals last year, enough of her was saved to make reconstruction possible, and she is being restored now.

Answer 20

A 'tea clipper'. Brought tea to England  from the East. Had a magnificent set of sails and was probably the fastest ocean-going ship of its time.

Answer 21

I know that it's a big ship that people can look around, that it was in a fire last year and that my mum used to go and visit it when she was little and hated it because she was scared of the figure heads.

Answer 22

I know it's a smooth Scotch whiskey that has a picture of a clipper ship on the label.