ARTESANIA LATINA 22800 Cutty Sark Clipper
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Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of development for this type of ship, which ended when steamships took over their routes. The ship is named after the short name of the fictional witch in Robert Burns' poem Tam o' Shanter, first published in 1791. The Cutty Sark was commissioned by shipowner John Willis, who managed a shipping company founded by his father. The company had several ships engaged in the tea trade from China to Britain. Speed was an advantage for ships carrying a high-value seasonal product such as tea. Faster ships were able to get higher freight rates (the price paid for transporting cargo), and tea merchants used the names of the fast ships that carried their product in their advertisements[. It was the fastest clipper at the time, capable of sailing 350 miles (about 650 km, average daily speed of 15 in) in a day. As some believe, it was also the most beautiful of all sailing ships in the world, with its strongly elongated bowsprit and six tiers of sails on the grotmast (nearly 3,000 sq. m. of sail, 85 m. overall length). The ship embarked on its maiden voyage from London on February 15, 1870, bound for Shanghai. During this voyage, the ship carried general cargo, including wine, spirits and beer, as well as industrial goods. After successfully arriving in China on May 31, the ship was loaded with 1,305,812 pounds of tea. After just 25 days in the port of Shanghai, the ship returned to London, arriving on October 13 of the same year. Cutty Sark's tea career was interrupted by the Suez Canal. Opened the same week that the Cutty Sark was launched, the canal shortened the journey to China by more than 3,000 miles. Instead of circumnavigating the entire African continent, ships could now simply cross the Mediterranean and the canal to reach the Indian Ocean. However, this was not a practical option for sailing ships like the Cutty Sark. There were difficult wind conditions in the Mediterranean and the channel and expensive tolls to contend with. Cutty Sark went under the Portuguese flag in 1896 and changed name and ownership twice. After losing her masts in 1916, she was rigged as a brigantine. In 1923, Capt. Wilfred Dowman saved the clipper for England by buying her back from the Portuguese. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to Thames Nautical Training College in Greenhithe in 1938, where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. In 1954, she ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was moved to a permanent dry dock in Greenwich, London, for public display.
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Model specifications:
- scale: 1/84
- length: 1032 mm
- width: 350 mm
- height: 624 mm
- age recommendations: 14+
For more information, photos and assembly instructions, please visit the manufacturer's website (link above in the tab).
Presentation of the model in the video:
Vasa & Cutty Sark - what you will find in the kit:
A bit of history in the video:
Cutty Sark in the museum: