Cutty Sark gets a brand new figurehead: Ship's latest mascot is more beautiful, less angry version of scantily-clad witch 'Nannie' In Robert Burns's poem Tam O'Shanter, Nannie Dee's lack of ...

Seventy years after Cutty Sark made its final voyage, historians are now looking to hear from anyone who remembers the day it was towed into its final location. The British tea clipper ship was ...

A new ‘winsome wench’ for the Cutty Sark: how London's famed 19th-century ship got a literal face lift. ... she was named for the sexy witch in Robert Burns’s poem Tam o’Shanter.

Cutty Sark Tam o’Shanter is the latest and is a direct descendant, ... The famous ship was named after a short Scottish skirt famously referred to in the Robert Burns poem Tam o’Shanter.

Cutty Sark was the Concorde of her era. ... came from the Robert Burns poem Tam O'Shanter, in which a beautiful witch called Nannie, wearing nothing but a 'cutty sark', or short shirt, ...

THEY were painted to celebrate the Robert Burns poem Tam O’Shanter and came complete with witches, warlocks and the odd Cutty Sark. After years under wraps, the complete collection of artist ...

He stops to watch quietly but, when he loses himself and shouts “Weel done, cutty-sark!” at a witch in a short dress, the music stops, the lights go out and the ghouls start chasing him.

Dressed only in a short nightdress - called a ‘cutty sark’ in old Scots - the figurehead represents Nannie, a witch who chases a drunken farmer in Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter.

Cutty Sark was named after the revealing short petticoat worn by a witch in the Robert Burns poem Tam O'Shanter. She was launched in 1869 at Dumbarton, Scotland.

IT is one of the world’s most famous ships built in Scotland and yet 15 years ago the Cutty Sark was in danger of rotting away at its berth in… ...

When the sleek, beautiful tea clipper Cutty Sark was launched in 1869, built for speed to beat the competition and get the precious early tea harvest back to the European market, she was named for ...