Cutty-sark (witch) Cutty-sark (witch) "Cutty sark" is 18th-century Scots for "short chemise" or "short undergarment". Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee, a fictional character created by Robert Burns in his "Tam o' Shanter", after the garment she wore. The figurehead of the tea clipper "Cutty Sark" is named after the character and a brand of Scotch whisky is named in turn for the ship. "Cutty" or "cuttie" (the diminutive form of "cuttit", from Early Middle English "cutte", "kutte", "cute" "ugly") is "short" or "stumpy". "Sark" or "serk" (from Old English "serc"; Old Norse "serk") is a "shift",
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