Cutty Sark

This guide to the Cutty Sark in London puts you aboard in August 1872, four hundred miles ahead of her great rival Thermopylae in a race back from Shanghai loaded with tea. You'll hear what a gale in the Sunda Strait tore away from the ship, and the ordinary situation her captain and crew faced far from any port or dry dock. The guide follows the ship's owner and captains in the years after, and a Falmouth harbour rescue decades later that kept her from disappearing for good. Look closely at her hull line while you listen — it's the same one that chased Thermopylae across the Indian Ocean.