Cutty Sark wind. The ship was named after Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns's 1791 poem "Tam o' Shanter". The ship's figurehead, the original of which has been attributed to carver Fredrick Hellyer of Blackwall, is a stark white carving of a bare-breasted Nannie Dee with long black hair holding a grey horse's tail in her hand. In the poem she wore a linen (Scots: a short chemise or undergarment), that she had been given as a child, which explains why it was "cutty", or in other words far too short. The erotic sight of her dancing
City of Adelaide (1864) Scotland to the Netherlands to prepare for transport to Australia. In late November 2013, loaded on the deck of a cargo ship, "City of Adelaide" departed Europe bound for Port Adelaide, Australia, where she arrived on 3 February 2014. "City of Adelaide" is the world's oldest surviving clipper ship, of only two that survive — the other is "Cutty Sark" (built 1869; a tea-clipper and now a museum ship and tourist attraction in Greenwich, south London). With "Cutty Sark" and (built 1878; a sloop-of-war in Chatham), "City of Adelaide" is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction