Clipper ships -
Around the 1840's American shipbuilders produced the first of these ships. They were the maritime culmination of a Yankee obsession with speed, they were the fastest, most beautiful wooden sailing vessels the world had ever seen!Names like Ariel, Adelaide, Champion of the Seas, Cutty Sark, Flying Cloud, Flying Fish, Neptunes Car, Sea Witch, Sovereign of the Seas, Taeping, Thermopylae
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