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Queen to re-open historic Cutty Sark ship in Britain

Reported by France 24 on Tuesday, 24 April 2012 (on April 24, 2012)

The restored Cutty Sark will be re-opened by Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday, five years after the 19th century British tea clipper was ravaged by fire.

The three-masted ship, one of Britain's maritime treasures, has been restored to its former glory at a cost of £50 million (61 million euros, $81 million).

She now once again stands proudly in the heart of Greenwich in south London, but the ship has been raised three metres (11 feet) in the air, allowing visitors to walk underneath her hull while protected from rain by a glass roof.

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