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",
City of Adelaide (1864) Scotland to the Netherlands to prepare for transport to Australia. In late November 2013, loaded on the deck of a cargo ship, "City of Adelaide" departed Europe bound for Port Adelaide, Australia, where she arrived on 3 February 2014. "City of Adelaide" is the world's oldest surviving clipper ship, of only two that survive — the other is "Cutty Sark" (built 1869; a tea-clipper and now a museum ship and tourist attraction in Greenwich, south London). With "Cutty Sark" and (built 1878; a sloop-of-war in Chatham), "City of Adelaide" is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction