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Tea Clippers: Ambassador (Clipper), Ariel (Clipper), Challenger (Clipper), Comet (Clipper), Cutty Sark, Fiery Cross (Clipper), Hallo

Tea Clippers: Ambassador (Clipper), Ariel (Clipper), Challenger (Clipper), Comet (Clipper), Cutty Sark, Fiery Cross (Clipper), Hallo


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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: 35. Chapters: Ambassador (clipper), Ariel (clipper), Challenger (clipper), Comet (clipper), Cutty Sark, Fiery Cross (clipper), Hallowe'en (clipper), Houqua (clipper), Lahloo (clipper), Lammermuir (1856 clipper), Lammermuir (1864 clipper), Leander (clipper), Lord of the Isles (clipper), Lothair (clipper), Memnon (clipper), Mimosa (ship), Robin Hood (clipper), Sea Serpent (clipper), Sea Witch (1848 barque), Sea Witch (clipper), Serica (clipper), Sir Lancelot (clipper), Stag Hound, Stornoway (clipper), Surprise (clipper), Thermopylae (clipper), The Great Tea Race of 1866, USS Nightingale (1851), Witch of the Wave (clipper). Excerpt: The 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 had a much shorter route to China, 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. Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895, and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman in 1922, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death she was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954 she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230794983
  • Publisher: Booksllc.Net
  • Publisher Imprint: Booksllc.Net
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 82 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230794980
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Ambassador (Clipper), Ariel (Clipper), Challenger (Clipper), Comet (Clipper), Cutty Sark, Fiery Cross (Clipper), Hallo
  • Width: 189 mm


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