What does 'Cutty Sark' mean? 'Cutty Sark' is an archaic Scottish name for a short nightdress. 'Cutty' means short or stumpy, and 'sark' means nightdress or shirt.
Cutty-sark (18th century Scots for a short chemise or undergarment) is a nickname given to Nannie, a fictional witch created by Robert Burns in his 1791 poem Tam o' Shanter, after the garment she wore.
Cutty Sark was built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869. Its owner John 'Jock' Willis, designer Hercules Linton and many of its crew members over the years were from Scotland. But despite its proud Scottish heritage, London was to be Cutty Sark's home port.
Because the ship was designed and built to transport tea, it is known as a tea clipper. However Cutty Sark actually transported a wide range of goods during her time on the seas. Tea clippers were also known as China Clippers, as they made the route between Europe and the East Indies.
Cutty Sark was preserved as a museum ship, and has since become a popular tourist attraction, and part of the National Historic Fleet. She is located near the centre of Greenwich, in south-east London, close aboard the National Maritime Museum, the former Greenwich Hospital, and Greenwich Park.
Cutty Sark is an iconic whisky; its distinctive yellow label has graced the world's best bars and lounges for over 90 years. The first light-colored blended Scotch whisky, Cutty Sark was launched at the height of cocktail culture in the 1920s and is the original easy drinking Scotch whisky.
Cutty Sark fire damage
90% of the ship in Greenwich today is original. Due to the fire, the restoration project ended up taking 18 months longer than initially forecast, and cost £10 million more. But the results speak for themselves – Cutty Sark is now displayed in a way that gives you access like never before.
Cutty Sark the Whisky
Despite prohibition in the US at the time, Cutty Sark whisky became popular, smuggled in as an alternative to moonshine. This meant that when prohibition was repealed, Cutty Sark was already an established brand of whisky.
The 2007 fire was caused by an industrial vacuum cleaner that had been left switched on for two days while a conservation project was being carried out to repair Cutty Sark's iron framework. The ship's masts, saloon and deckhouses had been removed and put into storage in Kent when the fire took hold.
Why is Cutty Sark's figurehead called Nannie? The name 'Nannie' comes from Tam O'Shanter, a poem by Robert Burns. The poem also was the inspiration for the name of the ship itself, Cutty Sark.
The majority of Cutty Sark's makeup comes from grain whisky (North British and Invergordon), which pulls together the 40 different single malts, including Highland Park, Glenrothes, Macallan and Bunnahabhain, that comprise the rest of the liquid.
Cutty Sark is a brand of blended Scotch whisky produced by La Martiniquaise in Scotland.
Blended Scotch whisky Cutty Sark, which has its roots in Prohibition America, has been sold to French drinks group La Martiniquaise-Bardinet. Glasgow-based Edrington sold the brand for an undisclosed sum.
Chiefly Scot. cut short; short; stubby. irritable; impatient; short-tempered.
A cuttie-stool, or cutty-stool (also -stuil), was a type of three-legged chair used in Scotland. It was a short stool, often having a round seat on the top, but the word also designates a larger piece of furniture associated with public penance in church.
As bees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, The minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure; Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!
Included with entry ticket to Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark's hull is covered in copper alloy sheathing of 70% copper and 30% zinc. The hull was innovative for its composite design, which combined wooden planks with an iron 'skeleton' of frames, beams and cross bracing.
United States. The United States remains the biggest Scotch whisky-consuming country by value. In 2022, sales of the alcohol type in the country were to the tune of GBP 1,053 million (around Rs 10,585 crores). The rise in value was 33 percent year on year from GBP 790 million (around Rs 7,941.7 crores) in 2021.
Unless all you need is alcohol content and a bit of smoke, you don't really get any flavors coming through when its diluted or with added ice. Instead, this seems to be best served neat, where it's a delicious blend all on its own.
The world was gripped by the head-to-head challenges of the 'Cutty Sark' and 'Thermopylae' who had their showdown in the summer of 1872, in the annual race to bring the first of the season's tea to London.
Alas for The Cutty Sark, her tea racing days were over in 1877, after eight successful round trips to China. That year she sailed her last cargo of tea back to London, and on her return to Shanghai in 1878 there was no more tea for the famous clipper.
Cutty Sark Crew
The number of crew changed for each voyage but it was usually between 18-28 men.
ale. A fermented alcoholic beverage containing malt and hops, similar but heavier than beer. black jack.