Riggers have climbed to the dizzy height of 152ft to ensure the Cutty Sark, one of the fastest tea clippers of its day, is looking its best for its 150th anniversary next month. To help it reach ...

A bracing westerly is shaking the rigging and I am feeling distinctly wobbly way up high on the yard arm of what was once the fastest ship in the world. Given that I'm feeling nervous, what on earth ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once among the fastest ships afloat, the Cutty Sark has been stationary for almost 70 years, dry-docked beside ...

IT is one of the world’s most famous ships built in Scotland and yet 15 years ago the Cutty Sark was in danger of rotting away at its berth in London. Then scientists were called in to help save the ...

For the first time ever, members of the public are going to be able to get an insight into what it was like to be a sailor in the days of sail. And by that, we don’t mean biscuits with weevils in them ...

Riggers have climbed to the dizzy height of 152ft to ensure the Cutty Sark, one of the fastest tea clippers of its day, is looking its best for its 150th anniversary next month. To help it reach ...

Seventy years after Cutty Sark made its final voyage, historians are now looking to hear from anyone who remembers the day it was towed into its final location. The British tea clipper ship was ...

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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 ...