Cutty Sark was the Concorde of her era. As a working ship, she never made much money for her owners. But in terms of speed, beauty and design, she was a marvel: an example of British inventiveness ...

Cutty Sark also gained revenge over Thermopylae, beating her by 15 days in a race from Australia. But a new generation of steamers took over the wool run. On December 9 1894 she left Brisbane for ...

By the time Cutty Sark and Thermopylae raced in 1872, the writing was well and truly on the wall. Steamships could carry more, faster, and were not so weather dependent - but they were still more ...

CUTTY Sark was the queen of the seas, faster than the modern steamships that replaced her. Launched in the dying days of sail, she was built solely to bring tea from China to London as fast as ...

The Cutty Sark was an impressive ship in its day Those dedicated to restoring London's iconic Cutty Sark are using computer models to help rebuild it safely and to decide once and for all whether it ...

Thermopylae’s triumphant defeat of the Cutty Sark in 1872 is celebrated in the new plaque, to be unveiled today [Saturday May 20] in the Port of Aberdeen quayside near the Roundhouse and the ...

The original shipbuilder's half hull model of the famous tea clipper Thermopylae, the fastest sailing ship in the world at her peak and faster than the Cutty Sark, has been unveiled at Aberdeen ...

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 ...

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 ...