Which sailing ship, named after the witch in Burns' poem 'Tam O'Shanter', is preserved in dry dock at Greenwich?
"about scantily-clad females. The popularity of this poem was such that the phrase ""Well done, Cutty-sark!"" entered the English language via Scots as an exclamation similar to ""Bravo!"" Literary allusions to the original Cutty-sark abound. In ""Ulysses"", James Joyce writes: ""Laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broom sticks"" (p. 695). 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"
"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"
"Alexander Goudie worked at a cycle of 54 large format paintings dedicated to Robert Burns' poem, currently displayed at Rozelle House Galleries, near Burns' home at Alloway, Ayrshire. The Tam O' Shanter Urban Cottage on Bidston Hill, Wirral, Merseyside was named after the poem in 1837 after being built beyond a stream which was said to repel witches. It attracts both Robert Burns fans and local witches and Wicca historians. The Tam O'Shanter Inn in Glendale, California was named after the Robert Burns poem and was established in 1922 by the Van de Kamp bakery family. As of 2017, it"
"for the ""Tam O’Shanter Overture"". The piece is based on an epic poem by Robert Burns which tells of a farmer and drunkard by the name of Tam O’Shanter, a Scotsman, who gets intoxicated with friends in a local tavern while his angry wife waits for him at home. Within the piece, his drunkenness is portrayed by the trombone solo at the very beginning. On his way back, he stumbles into the Kirk-Alloway (a church) filled with witches and goblins dancing about. Terrified, Tam scurries away on his horse while being chased by the ghouls. A Scottish theme and Tam's"
"Alloway Auld Kirk The Alloway Auld Kirk, which dates back to the 16th Century, is a ruin in Alloway, South Ayrshire, Scotland (), celebrated as the scene of the witches' dance in the poem ""Tam o' Shanter"" by Robert Burns. William Burnes, father of the poet, is buried in the graveyard. Alloway was where he and his wife had raised their family, and William had attempted to maintain the grounds of the Kirk, which was already a ruin at the time. The original memorial stone has eroded and the present day stone differs in wording, memorializing both of Burns's parents,"
"and ... quite vicious"" stallion Tom O'Shanter. George Métivier published ""Tam au Sabbat"", a Guernésiais version of Burns' poem, in ""La Gazette de Guernesey"" in 1855. This version was included in his collection ""Fantaisies guernesiaises"" in 1866. In 1899, the town of Barre, Vermont erected a memorial to Burns in local granite, including a panel depicting a scene from the poem. In 1915, the American composer George Whitefield Chadwick completed a symphonic poem inspired by the poem. In 1955, British composer Malcolm Arnold's Overture Op. 51a was named ""Tam o' Shanter"" after Burns' poem. In the 1990s, Scottish figurative painter"
"the Blessed is kept miraculously alive for eighty years while his companions feast in blissful forgetfulness, until the opening of a forbidden door that faces Cornwall recalls them to their sorrow and the need to bury the head at the White Mount (the Tower of London). ""Brân"" is the Welsh for 'Raven', which have a legendary connection with the Tower of London. On 15 July 1945, the cargo ship ran aground on Grassholm and sank. Nine crew were rescued by the Angle Lifeboat. Grassholm Grassholm ( or ) is a small uninhabited island situated off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in"
"Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway, and the sculpture was based on the Robert Burns poem ""Tam O' Shanter"" - which is set in Alloway. The finder's prize was a teacup featuring a horse's tail, a reference to the poem. The sculpture is on display at the Museum. The third sculpture was found at the ""Am Politician"" pub on the Isle of Eriskay, where the nine pupils of the Eriskay Primary School found the sculpture based on the Compton Mackenzie novel ""Whisky Galore"". The finder's prize was a teacup with a bottle labelled 'whisky galore' on the top. The sculpture is"
"Burns to Grose, and according to Gilbert Burns, the poet asked the antiquarian to include a drawing of Alloway Kirk when he came to Ayrshire; Grose agreed, as long as Burns gave him something to print alongside it. Burns wrote to Grose in June 1790, giving him three witch stories associated with Alloway Kirk, two of which he said were ""authentic"", the third, ""though equally true, being not so well identified as the two former with regard to the scene"". The second of the stories was, in fact, Tam o' Shanter. This is Burns' prose sketch of it to Grose:"
"because Charles earlier had demanded its removal and it has since 1883 been put on display in the cellar of the ""Rijksmuseum"" in Amsterdam. On 14 March 2012 the transom was transported to England on board the Royal Netherlands Navy patrol ship ""Holland"", accompanied by the then Dutch crown prince Willem-Alexander, where it was put on display, in commodate, at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich as part of the ""Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames"" exhibition held on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Almost 250 years later, Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem ""The Dutch"
"hair”. Her deed was committed to verse by William Wordsworth in his poem ""Grace Darling"" (1843). A lifeboat with her name was presented to Holy Island. One of a series of Victorian paintings by William Bell Scott at Wallington Hall in Northumberland depicts her rescue. The McManus Galleries in Dundee includes three paintings by Thomas Musgrave Joy which celebrate Grace Darling's deeds with the ""Forfarshire"". At Bamburgh, there is a museum dedicated to her achievements and the seafaring life of the region. It re-opened in December 2007 following renovation. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution Mersey class lifeboat at Seahouses bears"
"ship, she spent her final trading years as a barquentine. She was dismasted in 1916 but restored in 1922 then used as a training ship. ""Cutty Sark"" was taken over by a preservation society in 1952 and moved to Greenwich. In 2007 she was damaged by fire during restoration work but is now repaired and offers visitors tours as well as a souvenir shop and a coffee shop. HM Bark ""Endeavour"" was built in 1768 as a collier at Whitby. She was full rigged ship and sturdily built with a large hold. ""Endeavour's"" flat bottomed hull was well suited for"
"the ship which is now in the ships models collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. This model is fully rigged and features a paint scheme with white bands across the gun decks accented with red and black bands. The gun ports are in black to give a chequered effect. The model, including its mahogany baseboard, measures in length, in width and in height. The model, described as a ""beautiful work of art"", was donated to the Greenwich Hospital by Tucker's widow in 1852 and was originally displayed in its Painted Hall. It has been part of the National Maritime"
"(1788) and the Goodwin Sands (1793). Many others were commissioned during the nineteenth century, especially off England's east coast and the approaches to the Thames, where there were many treacherous shoals. Following their acquisition of the patent, all English and Welsh lightvessels were maintained by Trinity House, with the exception of the four vessels in the approaches to the River Mersey, which were maintained by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board until 1973, and those in the Humber Estuary, which were the responsibility of the Humber Conservancy Board. In order to act as effective daymarks Trinity House lightvessels were painted"
"to a museum containing original manuscripts of his poetry. A nineteenth century memorial to Burns, designed by Thomas Hamilton, is located at the foot of the village next to the present church. The nearby, ruined Alloway Auld Kirk and the old bridge over the River Doon (Brig o' Doon) are featured in the poem ""Tam O'Shanter"", and are presently tourist attractions. Burns's father, William Burnes, is buried in the Auld Kirk. To add a ""ghostly"" appearance to the place, green lights are illuminated over it at night. The whole site relating to Burns, encompassing Burns Cottage, the Brig o' Doon,"
"Treader"". ""Dawn Treader"" is also a song on the Charlotte Hatherley album ""The Deep Blue"". The ""Dawn Treader"" makes a random appearance as a vessel in the videogame ""Sid Meier's Pirates!"". China Miéville's fantasy novel ""The Scar"" (2002) subverts the ""Dawn Treader"" tradition: the flagship of the imperialist New Crobuzon flotilla which attacks the floating pirate city-state of Armada has the name ""Morning Walker"". Dawn Treader The Dawn Treader was a Narnian ship in the fictional world of ""The Chronicles of Narnia"". It was built by King Caspian X and is featured primarily in the book ""The Voyage of the"
"or a particular ex-member of the museum staff that enjoys making his presence known. Investigators from television's ""Most Haunted"" have visited the ship. Include but may not be limited to: Ross Tiger Ross Tiger is a traditional side-winder fishing trawler that was converted into a museum ship in 1992. She is currently berthed in Alexandra Dock at her home port of Grimsby, close to the site of the former PS Lincoln Castle. She forms the star attraction of North East Lincolnshire County Council's National Fishing Heritage Centre since restored and opened to the public in 1992. As Grimsby's last traditional"
"the owner retiring from Brownsea Islands Ferries and is licensed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). Orwell Lady The Orwell Lady (originally New Mary Louise.) is a purpose built river cruiser (built 1979) currently operating 13 miles of the river Orwell and sails from Ipswich, England. The Orwell lady is 57 ft (17.13m) long and 14 ft (4.26m) in the beam, weighs 42 tonnes, and carries 118 passengers plus crew. The Orwell Lady sails from Ipswich dock and sails to the end of the Orwell at the Port of Felixstowe allowing for views of Shotley harbour and the historic"
"Lady Lovibond The Lady Lovibond (sometimes spelled Luvibond) is the name given to a legendary schooner that is alleged to have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast of south-east England, on 13 February 1748, and is said to reappear there every fifty years as a ghost ship. No contemporary records of the ship or its supposed sinking are to be found. The story goes that the ship was at sea on 13 February because her captain, Simon Reed (in some accounts named Simon Peel), had just been married, and was celebrating the occasion with a cruise."
"the UK and USA from at least 1767. This is believed to be a corruption of ""mater cara"" (""dear mother"", the Virgin Mary), a reference to the supernatural Mother Carey, or a superstitious modification of an earlier ""Mother Mary's Chicken"" to reduce the potency of the religious name. The Mother Carey character appears a number of times in literature. In the Cicely Fox Smith poem ""Mother Carey"", she calls old sailors to return to the sea, but in John Masefield's poem of the same name she is seen as a wrecker of ships. She appears as a fairy in Charles"
"of rescuing the survivors. Captain Bull Prestwick allegedly sighted her in 1948, and reported that she looked real, but gave off an eerie green glow. There was no reported 1998 sighting. The Goodwin Sands are England's most fertile grounds for ghost ships, and are also the location of the legendary island of Lomea. The ""Lady Lovibond"" shares the area with two other phantom vessels: a liner called the , and the ""Shrewsbury"", a man-of-war. Researchers George Behe and Michael Goss came to the conclusion that there is no reliable primary sources that mention the Lady Lovibond before a 1924 article"
"in the ""Daily Chronicle"". They speculated that the ship may have been a fabrication from the journalist, or based on a ship that sailed into view between 1914 and 1924. Behe and Goss speculate that stories about the ship may have been invented for Valentine's Day and there were similarities with the story from other fictional ghost stories. Lady Lovibond The Lady Lovibond (sometimes spelled Luvibond) is the name given to a legendary schooner that is alleged to have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast of south-east England, on 13 February 1748, and is said to"
"Greenland Pier Greenland Pier is a pier on the River Thames in London, United Kingdom. The pier is situated at the eastern end of Greenland Dock in the London Borough of Southwark, . Greenland Pier is a stop on the Thames commuter catamaran service run by Thames Clipper from Embankment, via Tower Millennium Pier, Canary Wharf and on to Greenwich, the O and Woolwich Arsenal Pier. Threats of closure due to maintenance issues have been a recurrent problem in recent years. Despite a pledge to revamp the pier for the London 2012 Olympics, Southwark Council was unable to secure the"
"a gallon of oil every four hours. The present lighthouse was built in 1873 and was operational until sunrise on 9 October 1913. Bidston and Leasowe Lighthouse together formed a pair of leading lights enabling ships to avoid the sandbanks in the channel to Liverpool. It is now privately owned, and occasionally open to the public. Tam O'Shanter Cottage is a historic cottage on the hill. It is part of Tam O'Shanter Urban Farm, a free-to-enter city farm. The cottage takes its name from the poem Tam o'Shanter by Robert Burns and is opposite Flaybrick Memorial Gardens. There is a"
"In 1983 one propeller and part of its drive shaft were salvaged. They are now on view at the Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum, Lyness, Hoy, Orkney. The sinking of the ship and the events surrounding Kitchener's death are portrayed in the 1969 film ""Fraulein Doktor"" about a female spy, and the 1921 film ""How Kitchener Was Betrayed"". The ship also features prominently in the novel Cresent Dawn by Clive Cussler, in which the ship is destroyed by a bomb inside the ship, placed there by the Church of England to eliminate Lord Kitchner, who in the story had"
"that returned to England 27 June 1606 after a disastrous voyage in which many of the crew were killed by pirates. A few lines later the witch speaks of the sailor, ""He shall live a man forbid:/Weary se'nnights nine times nine"" (1.3.21–22). The real ship was at sea 567 days, the product of 7x9x9, which has been taken as a confirmation of the allusion, which if correct, confirms that the witch scenes were either written or amended later than July 1606. The play is not considered to have been written any later than 1607, since, as Kermode notes, there are"
"sand. The wreck lies in of water near the North Sand Head, Goodwin Knoll. The ship was in a remarkable state of preservation, possibly uncovered for the first time since she sank, and numerous artefacts were recovered in 1979-80. Most are held by Ramsgate Maritime Museum but some were first displayed at Bleak House in Broadstairs while it was still a museum, and then moved to the Deal Maritime Museum. A few artefacts have been recovered since, but the wreck was already being covered by fresh sediment in 1981. The ship re-emerged from the sand in 1998. Scouring of the"
"investment required and served notice of the pier's closure on 16 March 2012. Subsequent negotiations between Thames Clippers and Southwark Council resulted in its purchase by Thames Clippers, who will now take responsibility for its upkeep. Greenland Pier Greenland Pier is a pier on the River Thames in London, United Kingdom. The pier is situated at the eastern end of Greenland Dock in the London Borough of Southwark, . Greenland Pier is a stop on the Thames commuter catamaran service run by Thames Clipper from Embankment, via Tower Millennium Pier, Canary Wharf and on to Greenwich, the O and Woolwich"
"raised to purchase the old bridge back, and the trustees of the new bridge decided to quarry somewhere else. The line of the cobbles in the roadway is cranked, due to the belief that this pattern would stop witches from crossing. It is used as the setting for the final verse of the Robert Burns's poem ""Tam o' Shanter"". In this scene Tam is on horseback and is being chased by Nannie the witch. He is just able to escape her by crossing the bridge (over a running stream), narrowly avoiding her attack as she is only able to grab"
"the development of the harbour, navigation, fishing, lifeboats and shipwrecks. A fifth exhibition space houses a 17th-century 32-pounder demi-cannon raised from the wreck of HMS ""Stirling Castle"". A number of artefacts come from the nearby Goodwin Sands which is responsible for numerous shipwrecks. Exhibits include two museum ships: the 1946 steam tug ""Cervia"" and ""Sundowner"", a 1912 Dunkirk little ship. The museum reopened on 5 May 2012, having been closed for several years, and plans are afoot to completely revamp the Clock House building and Pier Yard surrounds. Ramsgate Maritime Museum Ramsgate Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Ramsgate,"
"next 140 years. Her lack of active duty left her timbers well preserved, and in the 1960s steps were initiated to convert her to a museum ship. Though steps were taken to restore ""Unicorn"" to a similar condition as her sister ship HMS ""Trincomalee"", this plan has been changed. It was discovered that the ship was the only example of a wooden frigate of her type existing in ordinary, and as a result the intention is now to preserve her in her current condition. ""Unicorn"" was never rigged, and only went to sea for the voyage from Chatham to Dundee,"
"two successful voyages between England and the West Indies before disappearing at sea in 1880 with the loss of 281 lives; the ship is believed to have been lost in a storm. Later British seagoing training ships were smaller purpose-built brigs. ""The Loss of the Eurydice"" is a major poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. The phantom ""Eurydice"" has been sighted frequently by sailors over the years since her sinking, and she is said to haunt Dunnose, a cape on the Isle of Wight that lies west of Shanklin, close to the village of Luccombe at the southwesterly end of Sandown"
"strain on the structure, which had become weakened over the years, proved too much, causing her to take in water and sink. After grounding on the Blyth Sands she was beached at Cliffe. Following a succession of storms, high tides and strong winds in December 2013, a large section of the ship's hull has now broken off and lies on the shore further round from the rest of the wreckage. A row of unnamed children's graves in the churchyard spurred Charles Dickens to use it as the setting for the beginning of ""Great Expectations"" (1860–61), where Magwitch jumps out at"