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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 97. Chapters: Clipper, City of Adelaide, Nantucket shipbuilding, Cutty Sark, Rainbow, Memnon, USS Nightingale, Sunny South, Mimosa, John Gilpin, Flying Cloud, Celestial Empire, Carrier Pigeon, Surprise, Great Republic, List of clipper ships, James Baines, Abiel Abbot Low, Clipper route, Robert Waterman, Ocean Telegraph / Light Brigade, Marco Polo, Sea Serpent, White Swallow, General Grant, Stag Hound, Witch of the Wave, Pride of Baltimore, King Philip shipwreck, Herald of the Morning, Red Jacket, Royal Charter, Champion of the Seas, Sweepstakes, Blue Jacket, Syren, James O. Curtis, RMS Tayleur, Paul Curtis, Young America, Andrew Jackson, USS Onward, USS Ino, Taitsing, Extreme clipper, Kingfisher, Harriet Hoxie, Lahloo, Antelope of Boston, Golden West, Race Horse, Ganges, Anglona, Carrier Dove, Northern Light, Lightning, Cimba, Sea Witch, Sir Lancelot, Queen of the Pacific, Witchcraft, Grinnell, Minturn & Co, Golden Fleece, Westward Ho!, The Great Tea Race of 1866, Loch Ard, HMAS Tingira, Cremorne, Thatcher Magoun, Thermopylae, N.B. Palmer, Stad Amsterdam, Houqua, Sovereign of the Seas, Lookout, Fiery Cross, Comet, Kosmopoliet, Sylph, Lothair, List of extreme clippers, Medium clipper, Lammermuir, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong, Ariel, Mary Robinson, List of people who sailed on clipper ships, Dutch clipper, John W. Griffiths, Challenger, Flying Spur, Blackadder, Ticonderoga, Hornet, Leander, Serica, Joseph Warren Holmes, Baltimore Clipper, Norman Court, Hallowe'en, Seminole, Duncan Dunbar, Ambassador, Taeping, Howland & Aspinwall, The Yankee Clipper, Composite ship, Alexander Hall and Sons, Chasseur, California, John Wade House. Excerpt: The City of Adelaide was built in 1864 by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, and was launched on 7 May 1864. The ship was commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS Carrick between 1923 and ...