<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8839fdbe-f033-4c21-a7b9-eb19aa6a6b46/12C7D1D0-1E74-4596-946A-5B82FA772A38/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clipper&oldid=315257145" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clipper&oldid=315257145" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clipper&oldid=315257145"><P>A <B>clipper</B> was a very fast <A title="Sailing ship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ship">sailing ship</A> of the 19th century that had multiple <A title="Mast (sailing)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_(sailing)">masts</A> and a <A title="Square rig" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_rig">square rig</A>. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total <A title="Sail" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail">sail</A> area. Clipper ships were mostly made in British and American <A title="Shipyard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipyard">shipyards</A>, though <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</A>, the <A title="Netherlands" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands">Netherlands</A> and other nations also produced some. Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between the United Kingdom and its <A title="Colony" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony">colonies</A> in the east, in trans-<A class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic">Atlantic</A> trade, and the <A title="New York" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York">New York</A>-to-<A title="San Francisco" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco">San Francisco</A> route round <A title="Cape Horn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn">Cape Horn</A> during the <A title="California Gold Rush" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush">California Gold Rush</A>. <A title="Dutch clipper" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_clipper">Dutch clippers</A> were built beginning in 1850s for the tea trade and passenger service to <A title="Java" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java">Java</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/12C7D1D0-1E74-4596-946A-5B82FA772A38/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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