Lesson 25

The Cutty Sark

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  • Lesson 25
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  • The Cutty Sark
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  • What piece of bad luck prevented the Cutty Sark from winning the race?
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  • One of the most famous sailing ships of the nineteenth century, the Cutty Sark, can still be seen at Greenwich.
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  • She stands on dry land and is visited by thousands of people each year.
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  • She serves as an impressive reminder of the great ships of the past.
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  • Before they were replaced by steamships,
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  • sailing vessels like the Cutty Sark were used to carry tea from China and wool from Australia.
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  • The Cutty Sark was one of the fastest sailing ships that has ever been built.
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  • The only other ship to match her was the Thermopylae.
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  • Both these ships set out from Shanghai on June 18th, 1872 on an exciting race to England.
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  • This race, which went on for exactly four months, was the last of its kind.
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  • It marked the end of the great tradition of ships with sails and the beginning of a new era.
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  • The first of the two ships to reach Java after the race had begun was the Thermopylae,
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  • but on the Indian Ocean, the Cutty Sark took the lead.
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  • It seemed certain that she would be the first ship home,
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  • but during the race she had a lot of bad luck.
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  • In August, she was struck by a very heavy storm during which her rudder was torn away.
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  • The Cutty Sark rolled from side to side and it became impossible to steer her.
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  • A temporary rudder was made on board from spare planks and it was fitted with great difficulty.
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  • This greatly reduced the speed of the ship,
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  • for there was a danger that if she travelled too quickly,
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  • this rudder would be torn away as well.
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  • Because of this, the Cutty Sark lost her lead.
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  • After crossing the Equator, the captain called in at a port to have a new rudder fitted,
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  • but by now the Thermopylae was over five hundred miles ahead.
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  • Though the new rudder was fitted at tremendous speed, it was impossible for the Cutty Sark to win.
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  • She arrived in England a week after the Thermopylae.
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  • Even this was remarkable, considering that she had had so many delays.
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  • There is no doubt that if she had not lost her rudder she would have won the race easily.