Part one of term paper
were extremely fast sailing ships developed primarily by the United States between the 1830's and 1860's. Clippers' did not have a final definition written in stone, but did share certain characteristics such as a sharp hull (designed for speed, not for cargo capacity) and a heavy and lofty square rig. The origin of the clipper is deb ...

Part two of term paper
... in New York for tea trades to China. A few years later, the California Gold Rush was the major concern of such ships. One of the fastest clipper was the Flying Cloud, which, on her maiden voyage, was the first ship to sail from New York, around the Cape Horn, and to San Francisco in under 90 days. By this time period, Yankee ship builders were building clipper ships for the British, who dominated the rote to Australia. One of these such people was Donald McKay, who built the James Baines. Unfort ...