Seeing A Tea Clipper And Looking At The Universe

The Cutty Sark

Yesterday we went to Greenwich and went to go and see the Cutty Sark. The Cutty Sark is the only surviving British tea clipper ship. It was one of the last built before steam-powered vessels took over.

The ship was suspended by heavy metal beams. The under part of the ship was plated with copper to make the ship go faster and to keep gunk and sea creatures off it.

Also at the front part of the boat they had a water height chart in Roman numerals.

There was a sort of glass enclosure built around the ship.

In the bottom part of the ship was a hole where you went in.

The floor was made out of crates of tea. The bottom deck was used for storage. There was also a video explaining the Cutty Sark's history. At one point it lost a race with another tea clipper and was sold to a Portuguese company.    

Save a lot of time

Afterwards we went to the Greenwich Observatory where you can put one foot in east and the other in the west. There was a long line of people wanting to have their pictures taken in front of a big piece of metal marking zero degrees but it was easy just to stand either side of the zero meridian. All the other people were wasting their time.

After that we went to go see an exhibition with pictures of different galaxies like the Sombrero Galaxy.