Cutty Sark Gets Its Cutty Sark Back
I I (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) I <Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Nov, 19. The Cutty Sark has regained her long-lost masthead decoration, a wind vane of sheet metal cut out in the shape of a short chemise, says the “Daily Telegraph.” The wind vane was sold in 1916 after the famous clipper had been dismasted while under Portuguese command. Recently it appeared at an auction in London, where at the last moment a telephone bid of £25 secured it for the Cutty Sark Society. The emblem represents a cutty sank, or short chemise, worn by the witch Nannie in Robert Burns’s poem, “Tam O’Shanter,”! from which the ship got her name. On entering port in the clipper days, a young apprentice would climb the mainmast with it so the ship could be distinguished from her rivals.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29367, 21 November 1960, Page 20
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