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Description
Cutty Sark, this famous ship was launched on 22 November 1869 in Dumbarton, on the River Clyde, Scotland. It was designed to be the fastest Clipper and get every season the first to England with the loading of Chinese tea.
He is currently exposed in the Museum of Maritime Greenwich, fully restored and accessible to the public.
It contains the traditional construction kit. It's a boat of wood and metal, scale 1:115.
Hollow town with false keel and laser cut ribs. Parts pre-cut wood and brass turning, casting parts and photo etched brass for details.
Presented in a luxury box with all components classified and sorted for easy location.
Book of instructions in 7 languages: Spanish, English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. Detailed instructions with photos of the step of the Assembly.
Included also 4 planes with all views and details needed for its construction.
Sewn sails set included in the kit. History its name comes from a poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, entitled 'Tam O´Shanter'.
When a witch in short Nightgown (Cutty Sark in Scots) chases Tam mounted on horseback to the bridge of the river Doon.
He chewed off bow shows the witch at arm's length, as the poem grabs the horse's tail before passing the bridge.
The Cutty Sark was intended for the transport of tea, very active at that time between London and China. He made his first journey in 1872, when I confronted the Thermopylae.
The two ships left Shanghai at the same time but I am off-hook after a fault at its helm, came to London a week after the Thermopylae.
The Cutty Sark's launch coincided with the opening of the Suez canal.
This step was not accessible for sailboats, what reason that its history in the transportation of tea was very short.
Between 1877 and 1885 performed various services, to then specialise in the transportation of wool from Australia to 1895, this period would beat several records for speed, including being the ship faster to make travel between Australia and England.
In 1895 it was sold to the company Ferreira of Portugal, to travel between Portugal with Brazil and New Orleans.
In 1922 Captain Wilfred Dowman bought the ship, returned to their original appearance and used it as a training ship.
In 1954, he was taken to Greenwich and placed in dry dock.
CUTTY SARK, complete kit, that spend hours and hours entertaining, enjoying its construction. To finally have a work of art at home.
