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Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch whisky produced by Edrington plc of Glasgow, whose main office is less than from the birthplace of the famous clipper ship of the same name. The whisky was created on March 23, 1923 as a product of Berry Brothers & Rudd, with the home of the blend considered to be at The Glenrothes distillery in the Speyside region of Scotland. The name comes from the River Clyde–built clipper ship Cutty Sark, whose name came from the Scots language term " cutty-sark", the short shirt [skirt] prominently mentioned in the famous poem by Robert Burns, " Tam o' Shanter". The drawing of the clipper ship Cutty Sark on the label of the whisky bottles is a work of the Swedish artist Carl Georg August Wallin. He was a mariner painter, and this is probably his most famous ship painting. This drawing has been on the whisky bottles since 1955. The Tall Ships' Races for large sailing ships were originally known as The Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, under the terms of sponsorship by the whisky brand.
"Cutty Sark" is a novella about the sailing ship Cutty Sark by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov. It was written in 1942-1943 and first published in the USSR in 1944.
Intrigued by the history of the Cutty Sark, Yefremov produced a sketch about her, which ended with a beautiful version of dry-docking the legendary tea clipper in the United States. The story was translated into English and other languages. Yefremov's story may have influenced the preservation of the Cutty Sark, which was reconstructed and dry-docked in Greenwich, London, 1954.
The feedback from English-speaking readers forced Yefremov to "upgrade" the storyline with some new facts from clipper's life.
The story popularized the Cutty Sark in the USSR and Russia.
The Cutty Sark is a tea clipper built in Scotland.
Cutty Sark may also refer to:
- Cutty Sark (whisky), a brand of Scotch whisky
- Cutty Sark, Greenwich, a pub in Greenwich, London
- Cutty-sark (witch), a character created by Robert Burns in Tam o' Shanter
- Cutty Sark (yacht), a private yacht belong to the Duke of Westminster and used in submarine escort duties during WWII
- "Cutty Sark" (short story), a short story by Ivan Yefremov
- Cutty Sark DLR station, a station on the Docklands Light Railway, near the ship
- Saro Cutty Sark, a British flying boat of the 1920s
Usage examples of "cutty sark".
A sailor out at the end of the Cutty Sark's mainsail yard waved at them with both hands, leaning his chest forward against the big polished cylinder of wood.
When I went from drinking Cutty Sark scotch to Bombay Gin, so did he.
Cassidy left the room and returned almost immediately with an open bottle of Cutty Sark and a plastic bucket of cubes.
He was twice offered drinks by sailors as he walked the length of the bar and turned them down with what he hoped was a gracious shake of his, head, and finally reached the table where the ship's officer sat, drinking alone, a bottle of Cutty Sark scotch in front of him.
Dana took a swallow of the Cutty Sark, choked on it and coughed, holding her head as if to contain the pain that had suddenly exploded in her skull.