Linda's Meta-learning Journal

I saw this famous ship yesterday and wondered how many of the people looking at it knew the story of Tam O'Shanter and what a cutty sark actually is - or for that matter that the figure head is a witch and what she is holding is the tail of Tam's "guid grey mare".

I've been trying to find out exactly why the ship was called Cutty Sark but so far have only established that she was built in Dumbarton and her first master was a Scot.