The clipper Cutty Sark was launched as a tea carrier in 1869 and won the annual clipper's race from China to London in 1871. She last carried tea in 1938 and has been here in Greenwich since 1954. Her name, meaning 'short shirt', comes from the poem Tam O'Shanter by Robert Burns, in which Cutty Sark was a witch, a "winsome wench", who chased drunken Tam through the night and nearly caught him. This witch, "Nannie", is also her figurehead.