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Monday November 22, 2004 Last chance for the Cutty Sark
The tea clipper Cutty Sark which is in Greenwich , London is in a sorry state. It has been in a dry dock for fifty years of its total age of one hundred and thirty five and the site will have to close in 2007 unless something is done. The iron ribs holding the ship together have corroded badly.
The architects Grimshaws have a plan to restore the ship and enclose it in a glass bubble accordingly to the Sunday Times article last week. The cost to conserve the ship is about half of the total project cost of twenty five million pounds.
The cover over the ship will be an inflatable enclosure using the Tensarity structural system of rigid pneumatic beams. It will look a bit like this when it is done. The Times says the glass enclosure looks a bit like a giant Nelson's hat. It will be interesting if the project gets off the ground.
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