Cutty Sark (whisky) 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 was originally distributed in the United States by Buckingham Co., which was
Lord of the Isles (clipper) passengers, thirty people in all, made Macao in the ship’s boats, despite being boarded twice by pirates. "The Yankee Clipper", a 1927 adventure movie produced by Cecil D. DeMille, features a race between "Lord of the Isles" against the American ship "Yankee Clipper" for rights to the Foochow tea trade. The film was shot aboard a surviving 1850s square-rigger, "Indiana", and includes footage taken from high in the rigging under sail. Lord of the Isles (clipper) Lord of the Isles was the first iron-hulled tea clipper, built in Greenock in 1853. She served in the tea trade until 1862, and