PRESERVATION OF CUTTY SARK
Duke Lays Stone At Permanent Dock (NZ. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 4. New Zealand and Australian subscriptions are among those commemorated by the stone which the Duke of Edinburgh laid at Greenwich, London, yesterday on the site of the permanent dock for the celebrated wool clipper Cutty Sark. The Duke also drove in the key pile of the dock. The Cutty Sark Preservation Society has received contributions from shiplovers all over the world to help pay for repairs to the old vessel and for a new dock at Greenwich to house her. It is expected that this berth will be completed about the end of September and the Cutty Sark moved into position there. The Cutty Sark, a 963-tOn threemaster, was launched on the Clyde in 1869, and won her first fame in the “tea races” to and from China. Later she passed to the Australian trade. Her best time home from Sydney was 67 days.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27370, 8 June 1954, Page 6
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