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Ships

Clippers

The fast sailing ships that raced the new season's tea home.

2 clippers

  • Cutty Sark

    Cutty Sark is a British clipper, launched on the River Leven at Dumbarton in November 1869 and one of the last tea clippers ever built. She is named after the witch in Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter, who wore a short shift — a "cutty sa

  • Thermopylae

    Thermopylae was a clipper built at Aberdeen in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co, to a design by Bernard Waymouth, for the Aberdeen Line. She was one of the fastest sailing ships ever built, and on her maiden voyage she ran from Gravesend to Melbour