Cutty Sark (whisky) the famous poem by Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter". The drawing of the clipper ship "Cutty Sark" on the label of the whisky bottles is a work of the Swedish artist Carl Georg August Wallin. He was a mariner painter, and this is probably his most famous ship painting. This drawing has been on the whisky bottles since 1955. The Tall Ships' Races for large sailing ships were originally known as The Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races, under the terms of sponsorship by the whisky brand. Cutty Sark was originally distributed in the United States by Buckingham Co., which was
Cutty Sark (yacht) then RAF Bardney in Lincoln. They named their new Avro Lancaster "Cutty Sark". It flew 30 missions before being shot down. "Cutty Sark" also appears, by name, in the 1943 film, "Close Quarters". By 1944 the need for requisitioned vessels had diminished, and HMS "Cutty Sark" was laid up at King’s Lynn and used by the Sea Cadets. In 1946 she was acquired, in an unseaworthy condition, as a training ship by the Jewish Marine League. The League had been founded in 1934 with the aim of training boys for a future Israeli merchant marine. The original intention was to