Because Calais was an english town, true, and they appreciate so much the atmosphere antipasti avant gout they want to visit Britannia the mere patrie
We should help those tourists to cross the channel instead of keepin' there, no? be good for national financial balance sheet, I guess
EDIT.
The amount that get across I think you help them anyway.
Built on the Clyde by the way.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.
The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steam ships now enjoyed a much shorter route toChina, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years.