November 22 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1869
The Cutty Sark is launched
At Dumbarton on the Clyde, the clipper Cutty Sark slides into the water -- named for the witch's short shirt in Burns's Tam o' Shanter. Built for the tea trade, she will become the fastest ship of her day. She survives, alone of the great clippers, at Greenwich.