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Restoration Science - the Cutty Sark

Plans to resort the clipper ship the Cutty Sark, the fastest ship of her day. The programme looks at an ambitious restoration plan for the ship, which is in dry dock in Greenwich, London, involving computer modelling and electro-chemical techniques to halt her corrosion.

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麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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