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Royal Clipper is a steel-hulled five-masted fully rigged tall ship used as a cruise ship. She was redesigned by Robert McFarlane of McFarlane ShipDesign, for Star Clippers Ltd. of Sweden , the same designer behind the cruise company's first two vessels.
The first composite tea clipper built by Robert Steele, Taeping won the 1866 tea race by the closest margin over Ariel. First home in 1867, overtaking Serica who had left 2 days earlier. Wild Deer: 1863 United Kingdom (Glasgow) Wrecked in 1883 Unknown China tea clipper of 1016 tons, built in 1863 for the Albion Shipping Co.
Official website of Star Clippers, the operator of the ship "In seventh heaven" – review in The Australian of a cruise on the Star Clipper "Star Clipper" – review by Douglas Ward in The Daily Telegraph, London "Under sail on the Star Clipper" – review by Betsa Marsh in the Miami Herald; Star Clipper at Shipspotting.com.
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Clipper is a British Fairtrade tea company based in Beaminster, Dorset, [1] founded in 1984. In 1994, it was one of the first companies in the UK to receive the Fairtrade Mark . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Clipper was purchased in 2012 by Royal Wessanen for around £50 million.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes.
Official website of Star Clippers, the operator of the ship; Link to videos of Star Flyer @ shipvideos.net "Clippers in the Andaman" – review of Star Flyer and Star Clipper by Glenn A. Baker in Cruise Passenger "Cruise the Jurassic coast" – review in The Australian of a cruise in Costa Rica on the Star Flyer; Star Flyer at Shipspotting.com
After slipping the clipper in 1993, the museum began a programme of work to preserve and restore the historic ship. In May 1999 Scotland regained its own parliament. A side effect of this was that previous UK funding sources for the Scottish Maritime Museum dried up. [28] This then had a snowball effect on the Scottish Maritime Museum.