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the Clipper had 3 or more masts
A clipper is a fast-sailing ship used in the early maritime days. It had three masts, was square-rigged, and the hull was designed to slice through the water.
A Tall Ship. A Caravel. A Bark. A Brigantine. A Clipper Ship. A Brig.
A "clipper" was the name given to a very fast, yacht like sailing ship with three masts and a square rig which was in use during the middle third of the 19th century.
It was a steam ship, so no masts for sails.
A barque, a caravel, brig, a carrack, a clipper, a corvette, a frigate. These are some of the types of sailing vessels that can have three masts
2-3 depending on the size of the ship.
Donald Mckay invented the clipper ship:)
Donald Mckay invented the clipper ship:)
The first clipper ships were English.
A clipper and a schooner were of different sizes and had different style rigging. The terms schooner and clipper represent two different ways to describe a sailing vessel. The word 'schooner' refers to the way a vessel's masts and sails are set up. A schooner is a vessel with at least two masts (some Great Lakes schooners had up to seven) and the foremast is usually smaller or sometimes the same size as the main mast. The schooner's sails are primarily rigged fore'n'aft though some schooners may have square sails rigged on the foremast as well, or they may have square tops'ls on the fore or both masts. The term 'ship' refers to a saling vessel that has at least 3 masts and has square sails rigged on all 3 masts. The term 'clipper' refers to a vessel that has been designed specifically for speed and usually for a particular purpose or trade. Most well known are the tea clippers that raced between China and England transporting tea, but there were also wool clippers, opium clippers and nitrate clippers. These were usually ships or sometimes barques ( a barque is a vessel with at least 3 masts and is square rigged except for the rearmost mast which is fore'n'aft rigged. There was also the Baltimore clipper, famous for it's use as a blockade runner, privateer and slaver, which was actually a schhooner.
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