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Fire destroyed Cutty Sark Ship
The Cutty Sark ship, one of London’s most popular tourist attractions, (1)_________by a fire, which is thought to (2) _________on purpose. More than 40 fire fighters (3) _________to the 138-year-old tea clipper ship in Greenwich early on Monday morning.
The ship (4) _________to visitors so improvements costing £25 million (5) _________. A spokesman for the London fire service said the whole ship (6) _________by the massive fire but nobody (7) _________. Police don’t know how the fire (8) _________, but said they were treating it as suspicious. That means the fire (9) _________on purpose rather than by accident.
The Cutty Sark (10) _________to carry tea around the world in the 19th century. It now sits at a dry dock at Greenwich as a living museum.
