The razing of the cutty sark

摘要

On 21 May 2007, the Cutty Sark, the famous clipper kept in dry dock in Greenwich, was badly damaged in a fire. Lawrie Douglas reports on the progress of the legendary ship's extensive restoration. THEY ALL thought she was finished last year. In May 2007, fire swept through the Cutty Sark in her berth in Greenwich. Fire-fighters fought strenuously for more than two hours before it was put out. But all was not as it first seemed; fortune was smiling down on the Cutty Sark, as she was undergoing a refit at the time and had been stripped down. Decks and planking had been removed and the masts, spars and rigging had been sent to Chatham Dockyard for refurbishment.