The restored Cutty Sark will be re-opened by Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday, five years after the 19th century British tea clipper was ravaged by fire. The three-masted ship, one of Britain's ...

General view of the newly-restored Cutty Sark in Greenwich, east London, April 24, Five years after the Cutty Sark, once the pride of the British Empire, was ravaged by fire the ship has been restored ...

G REENWICH, ENGLAND — Technology, rot and now fire have caught up with the Cutty Sark, the graceful clipper ship built in the 19th century to speed fresh tea from China to Britain's tables. After a ...

Aboard the Fastest Clipper Ship of the Victorian Era: The Cutty Sark' Alice Loxton heads to Royal Museums Greenwich to visit the Cutty Sark, one of the most famous 'clipper' ship that traversed the ...

The restored Cutty Sark will be re-opened by Queen Elizabeth II five years after the 19th century British tea clipper was ravaged by fire, according to a news report in The Independent newspaper. The ...

One of Britain’s most cherished maritime treasures will complete a miraculous rise from the ashes when it reopens to the public later this week. The Cutty Sark was devastated by fire in May 2007 but a ...

It was the end of the era of sails. It was the beginning of the era of steam. The clipper ship Cutty Sark was one of the fastest of her kind, swiftly moving cargo from one side of the world to the ...

GREENWICH, England – A spectacular fire early Monday heavily damaged the clipper ship Cutty Sark, one of London's proudest relics of the 19th century tea trade with China designed to be the fastest ...