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
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