Now Extinct.
The HMS Cutty Sark is burning. Greenwich police say that they are investigating the burning of the last original clipper ship (built of wood on an iron frame, it was one of the fastest, if not the single fastest, merchant ships of its time) as an arson case.Damned shame.
As really fresh tea is hard to get around here, I may have to purchase a green bottle before the day is through, in homage.
Labels: crime, History, strong drink
posted by Matt G @ 1:47 AM
8 Comments:
'Tis a crying shame. I hate to see history destroyed. There's something very precious about it.
Maaaaaaatttt......you about ready to post our crossover story? We're waaaaiiitiiiiinnnngggg....;)
Sh.
Go back to what you were doing.
I gotta get some sleep. Hopefully will finish tonight, kiddo.
Kiddo - and I'm older than you :) Heh heh heh.
That's bloody awful. The Cutty Sark? You can't put a price on a piece of history like that.
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You have NO idea how much this ticks me off.
BBC now reports that all may not be lost. The C.S. was in dock for a 6M pound (sterling) refurbishing, and had all of its superstructure stripped down. They were going to pickle the iron frame. The figurehead, the masts, the upper wooden decks, side-planking-- all were safe. The clipper may possibly be rebuilt.
The wood that they were going to remove & replace could have been sawed into chunks and sold to help defray the costs of the resoration, as with HMS Victory.
Sad. :(
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