Cutty Sark Model Ship 55cm (21")

Model of famous Cutty Sark Sailing Clipper with Solid Wooden hull with canvas sails and detailedrigging - 21" long. About Cutty Sark The worlds last intact clipper ship, now preserved in a spectacular dry dockat Greenwich, London. Long, lean, and beautiful, she was built in 1869 for the tea trade butmade redundant by the completion of the Suez Canal, which made steam ships more economic.Instead she earned her living, and incredible reputation for speed, in the long distance wooltrade from Australia.