Encyclopedia > Clipper

  Article Content

Clipper

A clipper was a very fast sailing ship. Often small, but with a large relative sail area they were used to ply the trade routes between western European countries and their colonies in the east.

The small, fast ships were ideally suited to low-volume, high-profit goods, such as spices, and most commonly, tea.

Although many were built during the middle of the 1800s, only the Cutty Sark has survived.

Notable Clippers:



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Bugatti

... winning the first ever Monaco Grand Prix and with driver Jean-Pierre Wimille[?] they won the 1937 and 1939 24 hours of Le Mans. Table of contents 1 Under Ettore ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 73.1 ms