Boats - Sailing - Ships
Jan. 01, 1951 - Cutty Sark, Last Of The Tea Clippers May Be Preserved: In calm waters lies the Cutty Sark, only survivor of the tea-trade clipper ships. On her port side is the black-and-white squared training shiporecester. It is now proposed that the Cutty Sark be preserved for the nation. She was built in 1870; served as a ten clipper and in the wool trade. In 1895 she was sold to a Lisbon firm. Then, in 1921, a Briton bought her back. She has been lying in the Thames since 1938
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13160892
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46127349
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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