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
Cutty Sark (yacht) world voyage to visit Jardine’s interests in the Far East. She left Stranraer on 4 November 1920 and arrived back at that port on 26 July 1921. The route followed was through the Mediterranean to the Far East, arriving in Hong Kong on 20 January 1921, and finally leaving Yokohama for home via Panama on 25 May 1921. Whilst in the Far East she visited Korea, Hankow, Wei-Hai-Wei, Tsingtao, Tientsin, Kurhashi-shima, Awashima and Shodoshima. The longest non-stop run was from Yokohama to Honolulu. In 1926 the Duke of Westminster acquired the "Cutty Sark", cruising her from North Norway to the