Queen Opens Cutty Sark To Public
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, June 25. The Queen today declared open to the public the Cutty Sark, the last of the old tea clippers, now laid up at Greenwich in a permanent Thames-side dry dock. She thus began the official retirement of a vessel which in her heyday outsailed most of her rivals by days or even weeks in the China tea trade and the Australian wool run.
During the proceedings, the president of the Cutty Sark Society, Mr Walter Barrie, caused some amusement when his tongue slipped—he called the vessel the “Sutty Cark.” Later the Queen and the Duke toured the vessel, followed by the Queen’s Bargemaster and two of the Royal Watermen in their scarlet uniforms.
The patron of the Cutty Sark Society is the Duke of Edinburgh, who has been the driving force behind efforts to raise money for the preservation of the vessel. She was launched in 1869, and once sailed 363 miles in 24 hours —an average of just over 15 knots.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28314, 27 June 1957, Page 13
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