"Cutty Sark" is a novella

Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...

 about the sailing ship Cutty Sark

Cutty Sark

The Cutty Sark is a clipper ship. Built in 1869, she served as a merchant vessel , and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954...

by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov written in 1942-1943, first published in 1944 (USSR).http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/serg/interests/literature/efremov/list.html

Intrigued by the history of the Cutty Sark, writer Yefremov produced a sketch

Sketch (drawing)

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 about her, which ended with a beautiful version of dry-docking the legendary tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

-clipper

Clipper

A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area...

 in USA. When the story was translated into English as well as to some other languages, it is believed that this story influenced the preservation of the Cutty Sark, which was reconstructed and dry-docked in Greenwich

Greenwich

Greenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...

, London

London

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, 1954.

The feedback

Feedback

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

The story popularized the Cutty Sark in the USSR and Russia

Russia

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External links

Cutty Sark in Esperanto

Esperanto

is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...

 Cutty Sark (first version) // Krasnoflotets (Leningrad), 1944, №5, pp. 27-35. Cutty Sark (revised version), published since 1958 (zip

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