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Puzzle #46 was Cutty Sark.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. She was named after the fictional witch who wore only a short shirt in Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter, first published in 1791.
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What the record says
Puzzle 46 ran on 24 Aug 2026 and the answer was Cutty Sark, played with 6 guesses against 7 columns. On the record: Type - sail; Flag - United Kingdom; Tonnage - <1k; Status - museum; Builder - Scott and Linton. The numbers: Launched - 1860; Length - 85.4 m.
The photograph is by John Fraser, licensed Public domain.
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How it scored
- Type
- sail
- Flag
- United Kingdom
- Launched
- 1860
- Tonnage
- <1k
- Length
- 85.4 m
- Status
- museum
- Builder
- Scott and Linton