The 'Cutty Sark' was launched in 1869. She was built of teak on an iron frame by Scott and Linton of Dumbarton, on the Clyde. 'Cutty Sark' was involved in the tea trade and from 1885 to 1895 the Australian wool trade but she was eventually sold to the Portuguese and renamed the 'Ferreira'. The vessel was later bought back to England in 1922 by Captain Wilfred Dowman. He kept her at Falmouth until she became a training ship for the Thames Nautical Training College at Greenhithe in 1938. In 1952, the Cutty Sark Preservation Society (now the Cutty Sark Trust) was formed. After repairs at the East India Dock, the ship was preserved in a purpose-built dry-dock at Greenwich in 1954. This drawing shows her there before being taken to Greenwich, where her initial full restoration was completed and she was opened to the public in 1957.