Here am I, trying to do one of my educational posts, and blogger will only post this photo. Over and over again, no matter which one I highlight. I want to give you the Cutty Sark, a tea clipper in dry dock in Greenwich (the home of the zero degrees meridian). It's nearly 140 years old, and was once the fastest vessel doing the tea run from the east.
This is the prow of the ship with its figurehead. Cutty Sark is a character from a Robbie Burns poem.
I'l try later to get some more pictures to post.
I've often wondered why the creators of the figureheads always had to make them topless....
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