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Baltimore clipper Pride of Baltimore II
The American Baltimore clipper ship Pride of Baltimore II during the parade of sails kicking off the Tall Ships Charleston festival, May 18, 2017, in Charleston, South Carolina.
Baltimore clipper
ship
Baltimore clipper, small, fast sailing ship developed by Chesapeake Bay (U.S.) builders in the 18th century. Its speed made it valuable for use as a privateer, for conveying perishables, and in the slave trade, and its hull design gives it claim as an ancestor of the larger clipper ships of the 19th century. Most Baltimore clippers had two steeply raked masts that were rigged with various combinations of fore-and-aft and square sails.
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