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CUTTY SARK was the Concorde of her era. As a working ship, she never made much money for her owners. But in terms of speed, beauty and design, she was a marvel: an example of British inventiveness at which the rest of the world gasped in admiration.
Although she had not been in the water for nearly 50 years, she was one of only three historic ships in the world rigged exactly as they were when they were still at sea.See the full content of this document
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Concorde of the High Seas
She had been lying in her dry-dock alongside Greenwich Pier in London looking much as she would have done in her Victorian heyday, waiting to load a cargo of tea at the quayside in Shanghai before racing homewards.
Alas, looks can be deceptive. Below that scrubbed d...See the full content of this document
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