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  Norman Court

  Norman Court was a composite built clipper ship, designed by William Rennie, measuring 197.4ft x 33ft x 20ft, of 833.87 tons net. The ship was built in 1869 by A & J Inglis of Glasgow. On the night of 29 March 1883 in a strong gale it was driven ashore and wrecked in Cymmeran Bay.
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  Lammermuir

  Lammermuir, named for the Lammermuir Hills, was an extreme composite clipper ship that measured 178'0"×34'0"×22'0" and had tonnage 952 NRT. Built in 1856 by W. Pile & Co of West Hartlepool for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son, London, it was the favorite ship of its owner. When it was wrecked...
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  Cutty Sark

  The Cutty Sark is a clipper ship. Built in 1869, she served as a merchant vessel (the last clipper to be built for that purpose), and then as a training ship until being put on public display in 1954. She is preserved in dry dock in Greenwich, London. Badly damaged by fire on 21 May 2007 while...
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  Lammermuir

  The second ship to bear the name Lammermuir was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1864 by W. Pile & Co of West Hartlepool for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son, London. The first Lammermuir had been the favorite ship of John Willis and it was wrecked in the Gaspar Strait the year before...
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  City of Adelaide

  City of Adelaide (1864), later known as HMS Carrick (1923), then SV Carrick (1948), and then reverting to City of Adelaide (2001), is the oldest surviving clipper ship in the world, one of only a few to still exist, however her owners, the Scottish Maritime Museum, intend to demolish her (2009) as...
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  Ariel

  Ariel was a clipper ship famous for making fast voyages between China and England in the late 1860s. Ariel was a full rigged ship of 853 tons net register, measuring 197.4 feet x 33.9 feet x 21 feet. She was designed by William Rennie, and built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Co., Greenock for Shaw,...
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  Lightning

  Lightning was a clipper ship, one of the last really large extreme clippers to be built in the USA. She was built by Donald McKay for James Baines of the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, for the Australia trade. Lightning was the most extreme example of a type of ship classified as an extreme clipper....

• Challenger

  Challenger was a wood clipper ship built in 1852 by Richard & Henry Green, Blackwall for Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, London. From "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. I, no. 8 (October 1931) Between 14 June and 20 October 1863 The Challenger sailed from Hankow to London in 128 days with a cargo of tea at £7...

• James Baines

  The James Baines was an extreme passenger clipper ship completely constructed of timber in the 1850s and launched on 25 July 1854 from the East Boston shipyard of the famous ship builder Donald McKay in the USA for the Black Ball Line of James Baines & Co., Liverpool. The clipper was one of the few...

• Blackadder

  Blackadder was a clipper ship, a sister ship to Hallowe'en, built in 1870 by Maudslay, Sons & Field at Greenwich for John Willis. Blackadder was dismasted on her maiden voyage due to failures in the mast fittings and rigging. John Willis took legal action against the builders which dragged on to...