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Historic ship blaze blamed on vacuum cleaner

An industrial vacuum cleaner left switched on inside the historic Cutty Sark ship was the most likely cause of the fire last year that gutted the 19th-century tea clipper, police said Tuesday. <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_world?a=79TLPI"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_world?i=79TLPI" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=rNa7L"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=rNa7L" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=AADmL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=AADmL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=sBVhl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=sBVhl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=eUWtL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=eUWtL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=mpMvl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=mpMvl" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_world/~4/407286568" height="1" width="1"/>