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Vacuum set Cutty Sark ablaze
Vacuum set Cutty Sark ablaze
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2008
By:
Julian Rush
It wasn't arson, it was a vacuum cleaner. That's the real reason behind the Cutty Sark fire.
A fire which caused £10m worth of damage to the Cutty Sark was sparked by electrical machinery.
Investigators have concluded that the blaze was not arson but caused by an industrial vacuum cleaner.
The machine was being used to remove waste from the ship as part of a renovation programme when the fire occurred in May 2007.
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