Cutty Sark (short story)

"Cutty Sark" (Russian: Катти Сарк) is a novella about the sailing ship Cutty Sark by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov.

[1] Intrigued by the history of the Cutty Sark, Yefremov produced a sketch about her, which ended with a beautiful version of dry-docking the legendary tea clipper in the United States.

Yefremov's story may have influenced the preservation of the Cutty Sark,[1] which was reconstructed and dry-docked by the Cutty Sark Preservation Society in Greenwich, London, 1954.

The feedback from English-speaking readers forced Yefremov to "upgrade" the storyline with some new facts from clipper's life.

[1] The story popularized the Cutty Sark in the USSR and Russia.