Fast merchant sailing ships of the nineteenth century, built to carry tea, wool and passengers around the world under sail. An entry belongs here when the cited article calls the ship a clipper or a merchant sailing ship. It excludes steamships and early modern sailing ships. Entries are placed by what their own cited article says, so each one sits in the narrowest group its source supports, and the group page lists it beside the other members.
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Wikipedia: Clipper
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A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed.
Wikipedia: Cutty Sark
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Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
Wikipedia: Baltimore Clipper
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A Baltimore clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland.
Windjammer, Wikipedia
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A windjammer is a commercial sailing ship with multiple masts, however rigged.
Preussen (ship) (Wikipedia)
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Preussen (Preußen in German and as written on the vessel) ([ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ) was a German steel-hulled, five-masted, ship-rigged sailing ship built in 1902 for the F.
Wyoming (schooner) (Wikipedia)
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Wyoming was an American wooden six-masted schooner built and completed in 1909 by the Percy & Small Shipyard in Bath, Maine.
Flying Cloud (clipper) (Wikipedia)
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Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours.
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