They wanted to transfer it to Rosemont, where it would become a dry-dock casino floating in 2 feet of water, miles from the closest river.

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By the mid-1920s, the Cutty Sark was the only one still afloat and in 1954 it was transferred to its current dry-dock site in Greenwich.

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With 67 berths and extensive dry-dock facilities, it is the largest man-made port in the world and the largest port in the Gulf region and in the Middle East.

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Despite the arch-capitalist atmosphere, half the sheikhdom's top hotels, its airport, seaports, refinery, dry dock, aluminium smelter and two of its three banks, among other assets, are government-controlled.

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