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
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