Cutty-sark (witch) about scantily-clad females. The popularity of this poem was such that the phrase "Well done, Cutty-sark!" entered the English language via Scots as an exclamation similar to "Bravo!" Literary allusions to the original Cutty-sark abound. In "Ulysses", James Joyce writes: "Laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broom sticks" (p. 695). 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
Thermopylae (clipper) In 1872, "Thermopylae" raced the clipper "Cutty Sark" from Shanghai back to London. "Thermopylae" won by seven days after "Cutty Sark" lost her rudder. From 1882 onward, "Thermopylae" took part in the Australian wool trade; however, on this route "Cutty Sark" proved faster. In 1897 she was sold to Portugal for use as a naval training ship and renamed "Pedro Nunes". On 13 October 1907, the Portuguese Navy towed her down the Tagus river using two warships, and before Amelia de Orleans, Queen of Portugal, she was torpedoed with full naval honours off Cascais. Thermopylae (clipper) Thermopylae was an extreme