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Everyone knows the carefully-timid attitude of the British to their past, represented in sights, castles, cathedrals and, of course, in museums. One of these relic museums, a witness to the history and development of Great Britain, famous not only in England, is a museum ship with the mystical name "Cutty Sark."

The seamen will accept the sea: they are afraid of the number 13, do not go to sea on Monday and others. And suddenly, in 1869, a Clipper Cutty Sark appeared, named after the heroine of the poem Robert Burns, the Scottish witch Nan ("Short Shirt"). All the ships of the sea began to bypass it, and the sailors said it was a bad idea. But the fate of Cutty Sark, the only clipper that survived to this day, turned out to be happy.

One of the relic museums, a witness to the history and development of Great Britain, famous not only in England, is a museum ship with the mystical name "Cutty Sark."
@ The ship "Cutty Sark", designed to transport tea from China and subsequently called a tea clipper, created Hercules Linton, commissioned by Captain John Willis. In the fall of 1869. the ship had already set off on a sea voyage from the city of Dumbarton where it was launched.
The museum-ship "Cutty Sark"

The clipper's history entered in 1872 ., when he, laden with tea, came out of Shanghai at the same time as the high-speed clipper "Thermopyl" . They moved virtually at the same speed . Suddenly, somewhere in about two weeks, "Cutty Sark" was without a rudder . Captain Moody and his team ran the clipper downwind hand tools and at the same time they made a new steering wheel, which took more than a week, and because of what the tea th clipper was able to reach London a week later "Fermopila" . But the captain's dedication and his desire to win made "Cutty Sark" famous .

Over time steamships began to be used . The tea clipper once carried wool , gunpowder, whiskey, horns of buffaloes, scrap metal, until in 1895 . it was bought by the Portuguese company "Ferere" . In 1922 . the following owner became its next owner, Captain Wilfred Doumen, who restored the ship, changed his rigging and led to the original form . And, finally, "Cutty Sark" began to be used as not a moving training ship, and in 1954 ., with the support of Prince Philip, he was ranked among the museums of London and put on a permanent stand at Greenwich Dry Dock .

In 2007, the clipper survived the fire, and in 2012 after many years of restoration work, "Cutty Sark" opened the doors for visitors and became the most popular and visited landmark of the city.

You can walk along the decks of the legendary clipper, holds, go down and inspect its underwater part, which makes a strong impression. You can sit on the territory of the ship museum in a cafe, go to a souvenir shop and buy yourself something memorable.

And let the clipper "Cutty Sark" already a century and a half, but he is alive and will live for a long time, because, according to the Russian writer Ivan Efremov, "... this ship was really born in a shirt. Let's be short, but happy. "

How to get to the museum-ship" Cutty Sark "

The museum is located at: London SE10 9HT, Greenwich, King William Walk, on the Thames Embankment in Greenwich, near the Greenwich Park, the National Maritime Museum and the former Greenwich Hospital. You can get there by metro to Greenwich station, DLR Cutty Sark

Opening hours

The museum is open every day from 11:00 to 17:00. Entrance tickets are best purchased through the Internet.