Cutty Sark Fire

Before fire

Cutty Sark fire2, originally uploaded by olebrat.

The famous Tea Clipper “The Cutty Sark” five hours after the fire that almost destroyed her on 21-05-07. Thanks for the picture to olebrat.
You can see my previous post. 9 days ago we visted Greenwish where Cutty Sark was there under renovation. Now it's gone.

She served in the water from 1869 to 1954 by transporting goods especially tea from China to London. After that Cutty Sark keeps serving as one of the popular torrist attractions, with 7-8 million visitors a year in Greenwish.
Many believe that it was an arson fire and police treated as "suspecious".
Fire is not uncommon in England even though lots of measures have been done.Windsor Castle fire also ripped through the Queen's official residence in 1992.

More about Cutty Sark on Wikipedia