Cutty Sark
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- Year-round
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- wheelchair-accessible
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The Cutty Sark, preserved in a dry dock at Greenwich, is the last surviving tea clipper, launched in 1869 to race cargoes of tea from China to Britain at record speed. Built for the final era of commercial sail before steamships took over, she later carried wool from Australia at exceptional pace. Now a museum ship, she has been raised on supports of glass and steel so visitors can walk beneath her copper-sheathed hull. Her name comes from a witch's short shirt in a Robert Burns poem.
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