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Breaking News: London's Cutty Sark On Fire
Sky News ^
| Monday May 21, 2007
| SkyNews
Posted on 05/20/2007 10:04:21 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
The preserved 19th-century ship the Cutty Sark is on fire, London Fire Brigade has confirmed. It is said to be 100% alight and eight fire engines are at the scene in Greenwich, south-east London.
Greenwich town centre is closed to traffic and the Docklands Light Railway will also close because of a police cordon, Scotland Yard said.
Local residents were also expected to be evacuated shortly.
The ship, one of the capital's best-loved tourist attractions, is currently closed to the public for extensive renovation work. It was due to reopen in 2009.
There are fears that gas cylinders that may be on board the ship because of the renovation work may explode.
London Fire Brigade said the Metropolitan Police received a call at 04:55am reporting an extensive fire on the 19th-century clipper.
The Clyde-built Cutty Sark was, in 1869, one of the last sailing clippers to be built.
She was destined for the tea trade, then an intensely competitive race across the globe from China to London, with immense profits to the ship to arrive with the first tea of the year.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: conservation; cuttysark; fire
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This is terrible!
To: FreedomCalls
The ship, one of the capital's best-loved tourist attractions, is currently closed to the public for extensive renovation work. Renovations and fires seem to go together. Johnny Cash's old house burned to the ground a few weeks ago.
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:07:40 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: FreedomCalls
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:07:44 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... For want of a few good men, a once great nation was lost.)
To: FreedomCalls
In better times.
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:08:13 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: FreedomCalls
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:09:17 PM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
To: FreedomCalls
To: FreedomCalls
Were there no fire suppression systems on board?!?
It’s like a genuine 19th Century disaster.....
To: FreedomCalls; Clemenza; rmlew; COEXERJ145; microgood; liberallarry; cmsgop; shaggy eel; ...
I remember seeing it 31 years ago just a few days before the American Bicentennial.
To: FreedomCalls
If it were a significant military ship I would be sad, but carrying tea to stain British teeth doesn’t do it for me.
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:11:59 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: FreedomCalls
Very sad.
Beautiful ship.
To: FreedomCalls
Muslims who thought it was full of this?
;)
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:15:15 PM PDT
by
GovernmentIsTheProblem
(Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
To: Paleo Conservative
Tragic...I love seeing the old sailing ships....
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:16:25 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
To: FreedomCalls
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:17:04 PM PDT
by
restornu
(Seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. "Mitt-? 08")
To: FreedomCalls
The preserved 19th-century ship the Cutty Sark is on fire, London Fire Brigade has confirmed. It is said to be 100% alight and eight fire engines are at the scene in Greenwich, south-east London Well ... if it's on fire .. then there is a pretty good chance that it's not 100% alright
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:17:58 PM PDT
by
Mo1
( http://www.gohunter08.com)
To: FreedomCalls
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:18:15 PM PDT
by
restornu
(Seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you. "Mitt-? 08")
To: SteveMcKing
It’s like a genuine 19th Century disaster.....Well don't just sit there pounding away messages to the 'net on your computer's keyboard!
Hop on a sweaty horse with flaring nostrils while swinging a lantern and spread the word at the top of your lungs!
To: Mo1
Not “100% alright,” but rather “100% alight” which I believe is the British way of saying “fully engulfed in flames.”
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:19:55 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(Ron Paul will never be President of the United States.)
To: FreedomCalls
BBC:
Crews tackle fire at Cutty Sark
*********************EXCERPT************************
An area around the 138-year-old tea clipper is being evacuated over fear gas cylinders onboard could explode.
Greenwich town centre in south-east London has been closed to traffic and the Docklands Light Railway shut.
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:19:57 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
To: hole_n_one
Hop on a sweaty horse with flaring nostrils while swinging a lantern and spread the word at the top of your lungs! That would make quite a scene where I am... instant straight jacket...
To: FreedomCalls
Cell phone photo of the fire.
/alliteration mode off
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posted on
05/20/2007 10:20:52 PM PDT
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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