The period of
clipper
A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area. "C ...
ships lasted from the early 1840s to the early 1890s, and over time features such as the
hull evolved from wooden to
composite
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. At the 'crest of the clipper wave' year of 1852, there were 200 clippers rounding Cape Horn.
The age of clippers ended when they were phased out in favor of more modern
Iron-hulled sailing ships, which eventually gave way to
steamships
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. In the late 20th century, ships based on the 19th century designs of historical ships began to be built. These are used today as
training ship
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s and to promote tourism rather than for cargo or trade. The following entries are organized by their year of launch and alphabetically within each year.
List criteria
Among other characteristics which define a clipper is that they were usually ships in the strictest sense of the word. That is, they were three-masted vessels (though rarely four-masted) and were fully square-rigged on all masts. Speedy contemporary vessels with other sail plans, such as
barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts having the fore- and mainmasts Square rig, rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) Fore-and-aft rig, rigged fore and aft. Som ...
s, were also sometimes called clippers. Likewise,
Baltimore clipper
A Baltimore Clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States of America, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. An early form of clipper, the name is most commonly applied to two-masted ...
is a colloquial term most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines. The "Baltimore clipper" was actually invented before the appearance of clipper ships.
On the other end of the timeline are iron-hulled sailing ships which differ from clipper ships. The only iron-hulled examples present on this list are labeled as clippers by reliable sources.
Historical clipper ships
The list is presented first by year of launch and then alphabetically within each year.
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s - 1890s
Modern clipper ships
The following clipper ships were built in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, they were inspired by the historical Clipper era which peaked in the 1850s.
See also
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ARM ''Cuauhtémoc'' (Mexico)
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Clipper
A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area. "C ...
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Extreme clipper
An extreme clipper was a clipper designed to sacrifice cargo capacity for speed. They had a bow lengthened above the water, a drawing out and sharpening of the forward body, and the greatest breadth further aft. In the United States, extreme clipp ...
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Ocean liner
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Bibliography of early American naval history
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Bibliography of 18th-19th century Royal Naval history
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Tall Ships' Races
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