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[[File:Fartygsporträtt-Klipperskepp 3-mastfullriggare - Sjöhistoriska museet - S 0107.tif|thumb|300px|[[Great Republic (1853 clipper)|''Great Republic'']] (1853), the largest clipper ever built.]]
The period of [[clipper]] ships lasted from the early 1840s to the early 1890s, and over time features such as the [[Hull (watercraft)|hull]] evolved from wooden to [[composite ship|composite]]. At the 'crest of the clipper wave' year of 1852, there were 200 clippers rounding Cape Horn.<ref name=":0" /> The age of clippers ended when they were phased out in favor of more modern [[Iron-hulled sailing ship]]s, which eventually gave way to [[steamships]]. In the late 20th century, ships based on the 19th century designs of historical ships began to be built. These are used today as [[training ship]]s and to promote tourism rather than for cargo or trade. The following entries are organized by their year of launch and alphabetically within each year.

==List criteria==
Among other characteristics which define a clipper is that they were usually ships in the strictest sense of the word. That is, they were three-masted vessels (though rarely four-masted) and were fully square-rigged on all masts.<ref>{{cite book | last1 =Labaree | first1 =Benjamin W. | last2 =Fowler | first2 =William M. Jr. | last3 =Hattendorf | first3 =John B. | last4 =Safford | first4 =Jeffrey J. | last5 =Sloan | first5 =Edward W. | last6 =German | first6 =Andrew W. | title =America and the Sea: A Maritime History | publisher =Mystic Seaport Museum | date =1998 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/americaseamariti00laba/page/309 309] | url =https://archive.org/details/americaseamariti00laba/page/309 | isbn =0-913372-81-1 | url-access =registration }}</ref> Speedy contemporary vessels with other sail plans, such as [[barque]]s, were also sometimes called clippers. Likewise, [[Baltimore clipper]] is a colloquial term most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines. The "Baltimore clipper" was actually invented before the appearance of clipper ships.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7NC67FZg6jcC&q=Baltimore+Clipper+confusion&pg=PA42|title=Oars, Sails and Steam: A Picture Book of Ships|author=Edwin Tunis|publisher=JHU Press|page=42|author-link=Edwin Tunis|isbn=9780801869327|year=2002}}</ref> On the other end of the timeline are iron-hulled sailing ships which differ from clipper ships. The only iron-hulled examples present on this list are labeled as clippers by reliable sources.

==Historical clipper ships==
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The list is presented first by year of launch and then alphabetically within each year.

===1840s===
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! class="unsortable"| Image 
! width=70pt|Year of launch
! width=100pt| Build location
! width=120pt|Fate
! width=120pt|[[Length overall|Length<br>overall]] <!--The .0s are kept on some numbers for sorting purposes-->
! class="unsortable"| Short summary
|-
| [[Houqua (clipper)|''Houqua'']]
| [[File:Clipper „Houqua“, ca 1850.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1844
| [[United States]]<br>{{small|([[New York City|New York, NY]])}}
| Disappeared in 1864
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Laid down along lines designed by packet captain [[Nat Palmer]] of Stonington, Connecticut. Built by Brown & Bell of New York for the China merchants A.A. Low & Bro, she was launched in 1844, named after a Chinese merchant who had died the previous year. Dogged by ill luck during her career, she disappeared at sea after leaving Yokohama in 1864.
|-
| [[Rainbow (clipper)|''Rainbow'']]
| [[File:Extreme Clipper Ship RAINBOW.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1845
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Lost in 1848
| <span style="display:none">159</span> {{cvt|159|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Rainbow'' was designed by [[John W. Griffiths]] and built by [[Smith and Dimon Shipyard|Smith & Dimon]] of New York for China merchants [[Howland & Aspinwall]]. Her design was heavily criticized at the time causing construction to be delayed, while rivals Brown & Bell (also New York based) launched the clipper ''[[Houqua (clipper)|Houqua]]'' for China merchants [[Abiel Abbot Low|A.A. Low & Bro]].
|-
| [[Tartar (clipper)|''Tartar'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1845?
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">{{n/a}}</span>
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Tartar'' was a 573-ton ship built in Philadelphia that set a sailing record of 77 days from Holyhead, Wales, to Bombay, India, in 1845 (April 4—June 19), captained by [[Benoni Lockwood III]].<ref name="cutler">Cutler, Carl C. ''Greyhounds of the Sea: The Story of the American Clipper Ship''. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1930.</ref>{{rp|115}}
|-
| [[Sea Witch (clipper)|''Sea Witch'']]
| [[File:SeaWitch china.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1846
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Wrecked in 1856
| <span style="display:none">170</span> {{cvt|170.3|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| She was built by Smith & DiMonte of New York for owners [[Howland & Aspinwall]]. Her 140&nbsp;ft mainmast carried 5 tiers of sails, as did the shorter fore and mizzen masts. In 1849, she made a record-setting run from Hong Kong to New York in 74 days under Captain Robert "Bully Bob" Waterman. The previous record had also been set by the same captain with the ''Sea Witch'' two years prior with a time of 77 days.
|-
| [[Memnon (clipper)|''Memnon'']]
| [[File:MEMNON (Ship) (c112-02-03).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1848
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Lost in 1851
| <span style="display:none">170</span> {{cvt|170|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Ticonderoga (clipper)|''Ticonderoga'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1849
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Wrecked in 1872
| <span style="display:none">169</span> {{cvt|169|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| A 169&nbsp;ft. 4-masted clipper displacing 1,089 tons, launched at Williamsburg, New York. The ''Ticonderoga'' was infamous for her "fever ship" voyage in 1852 from Liverpool to Port Phillip carrying 795 passengers. 100 passengers died during the voyage of what was later determined to have been typhus.
|}

===1850s===
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Name
! class="unsortable"| Image 
! width=70pt|Year of launch
! width=100pt| Build location
! width=120pt|Fate
! width=120pt|[[Length overall|Length<br>overall]] <!--The .0s are kept on some numbers for sorting purposes-->
! class="unsortable"| Short summary
|-
| [[Game Cock (clipper)|''Game Cock'']]
| [[File:GAMECOCK Clipper ship sailing card 00008619 e.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1850
| [[United States]]<br>{{small|([[Boston|Boston, MA]])}}
| Condemned in 1880
| <span style="display:none">200</span> {{cvt|200|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|
|-
| ''[[Mandarin (clipper)|Mandarin]]''
| [[File:Clipper Mandarin.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1850
| United States{{small|([[New York City|New York City, NY]])}}
|
| <span style="display:none">156</span> {{cvt|156|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|Built to be the fastest sailing ship, she completed 10 voyages before running aground and being abandoned in the [[East Indies]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Howe |first=Octavius T. (Octavius Thorndike) |url=http://archive.org/details/americanclippers0000howe |title=American clipper ships, 1833-1858 |date=1986 |publisher=New York : Dover |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-486-25115-8 |pages=378–380}}</ref>
|-celest
| [[Race Horse (clipper)|''Race Horse'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1850
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Disappeared in 1865
| <span style="display:none">128</span> {{cvt|128|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|She was an 1850 [[clipper]] [[barque]], who set a record of 109 days from New York to San Francisco during the first Clipper Race around the Horn.
|-
| [[Sea Serpent (clipper)|''Sea Serpent'']]
| [[File:SEA SERPENT Clipper ship sailing card hk3.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1850
| United States<br>{{small|([[Portsmouth, New Hampshire|Portsmouth, NH]])}}
| Abandoned in 1891
| <span style="display:none">212</span> {{cvt|212|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|
|-
| ''[[Stag Hound]]''
| [[File:Staghoundclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1850
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Burned in 1861
| <span style="display:none">226</span> {{cvt|226|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Stag Hound'' was designed by Donald McKay, and built in Boston in anticipation of the [[California Gold Rush]]. She was owned Sampson & Tappan (based in [[Boston]]), and when completed was the largest vessel in the American merchant marine. ''Stag Hound'' was a newer style of clipper which was designed for speed. Under Captain Josiah Richardson, she made a voyage from San Francisco to [[Guangzhou|Canton, China]] in record time. Her around the world voyages paid for the ship and earned $80,000 for her owners. Her end came in 1861 when she caught fire off Pernambuco, Brazil.
|-
| [[Stornoway (clipper)|''Stornoway'']]
| [[File:Stornoway (ship, 1850)-The clipper ship era 1843-1869 (1910) page 198 (14595826480).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1850
| [[United Kingdom]]<br>{{small|([[Aberdeen]])}}
| Wrecked in 1873
| <span style="display:none">157</span> {{cvt|157.8|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|Stornoway was a British [[Clipper|tea clipper]] built in [[Aberdeen]], Scotland in 1850. 
|-
| [[Surprise (clipper)|''Surprise'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1993">{{cite book |last1=MacGregor |first1=David R |title=British and American Clippers: A Comparison of their Design, Construction and Performance |date=1993 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press Limited |location=London |isbn=0-85177-588-8}}</ref>{{rp|page=46}}<ref name="Chapelle">{{cite book |last1=Chapelle |first1=Howard I |title=The Search for Speed Under Sail 1700 - 1855 |date=1968 |publisher=George Allen and Unwin Limited |location=London}}</ref>{{rp|344}}
| [[File:Clipper ship Surprise.tiff|80px]]
| align="center"| 1850
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Wrecked in 1876
| <span style="display:none">183</span> {{cvt|183.2|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|In hull form, ''Surprise'' was a medium clipper, with a prismatic coefficient of 0.82 (compared to ''Witch of the Wave'': 0.66; Sea Witch: 0.64 - typical values for a "sharp" clipper). Nevertheless, she made some notably fast passages, setting a record, at the time, of 96 days and 15 hours on her first trip from New York to San Francisco. She sailed extensively to China.
|-
| [[Witchcraft (clipper)|''Witchcraft'']]
| [[File:Witchcraftclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1850
| United States<br>{{small|([[Chelsea, Massachusetts|Chelsea, MA]])}}
| Lost in 1861
| <span style="display:none">193</span> {{cvt|193|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| A clipper ship built by [[Paul Curtis (shipbuilder)|Paul Curtis]] and Mr. Taylor, and designed by [[Samuel Hartt Pook]].
|-
| ''[[Antelope of Boston]]''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[Medford, Massachusetts|Medford, MA]])}}
| Abandoned in 1858
| <span style="display:none">140</span> {{cvt|140|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Challenge (clipper)|''Challenge'']]
| [[File:Samuel Walters - The clipper ship „Challenge“ arriving off the coast of England.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[New York City|New York, NY]])}}
| Wrecked in 1876 
| <span style="display:none">224</span> {{cvt|224|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by [[William H. Webb]] in NYC for the San Francisco run, ''Challenge'' was captained by Robert Waterman and was expected to beat the extreme clipper ''Flying Cloud''. Brutal treatment of inexperienced crew by Waterman and first mate James Douglass caused riots when San Franciscans heard of the first passage. She was ultimately wrecked off Ushant in 1876.
|-
| [[Comet (clipper)|''Comet'']]
| [[File:Cometclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Sank in 1865
| <span style="display:none">241</span> {{cvt|241|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| A California clipper built by [[William H. Webb]] which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade. This [[extreme clipper]] was very fast. She had record passages on two different routes: [[New York City]] to [[San Francisco]], and Liverpool to [[Hong Kong]], and beat the famous clipper ''Flying Dutchman'' in an 1853 race around the Horn to San Francisco.
|-
| [[Eastern State (clipper)|''Eastern State'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[Frankfort, Maine|Frankfort, ME]])}}
| Sold in 1866<br>{{small|(fate unknown)}}
| <span style="display:none">159</span> {{cvt|159|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by George Dunham, Frankfort, ME. 813 tons. 159'x29'x21.6'. Captain Paron C. Kilburn. Departs New York Feb 13, 1852; arrives San Francisco July 12, 1852. Later China. In Callao, Peru July, 1854. In Hampton Roads, VA October 1854. In New York October 18, 1854. 1866 sold to British.
|-
| [[Flying Cloud (clipper)|''Flying Cloud'']]<ref>{{Cite web| last = Bruzelius| first = Lars| title = ''Flying Cloud''| work = Sailing Ships: Flying Cloud (1851)| publisher = The Virtual Maritime Archives| date = 2003-12-14| url = http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Flying_Cloud%281851%29.html| access-date = May 8, 2010}}</ref>{{Self-published source|date=June 2020}}
| [[File:Flyingcloudclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Burned in 1875
| <span style="display:none">225</span> {{cvt|225|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| The ''Flying Cloud'' was built by [[Donald McKay]], and owned by Grinnell, Minturn & Co which was based out of [[Boston]]. In 1854, she set a record of 89 days 8 hours for her trip from New York to San Francisco under Captain J. P. Creasy. ''Flying Cloud'' had one sister ship named ''Northern Light'', and was a second copy of the new design that produced the fastest clipper ships.
|-
| [[Flying Fish (clipper)|''Flying Fish'']]
| [[File:FLYING FISH Clipper ship sailing card s-l1600.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Wrecked in 1858{{efn|The wreck was sold to a Manila merchant, eventually "Flying Fish" was rebuilt at [[Whampoa, China]] and renamed ''El Bueno Suceso''.}}
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| She was launched at East Boston, Massachusetts, for Messrs. Sampson & Tappan, Boston. Under Captain Edward Tappan, she made a run from New York to San Francisco in 92 days. She wrecked on 23 November 1858 off Fuzhou, China en route to New York with a cargo of tea. The wreck was sold to a Manila merchant. After she was rebuilt at Whampoa, China she was renamed the El Bueno Suceso.
|-
| ''[[Harriet Hoxie]]''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[Mystic, Connecticut|Mystic, CT]])}}
| Sold in 1859<br>{{small|fate unknown}}
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Hornet (clipper)|''Hornet'']]
| [[File:Hornetclippership.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Burned in 1866
| <span style="display:none">207</span> {{cvt|207|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by Westervelt and Mackay in New York, she is notable for a race in 1853 involving ''Flying Cloud'', and eventually burning at sea in 1866. Her crew took to three lifeboats, only one of which eventually reached Hawaii after a voyage of 4300 miles.
|-
| [[USS Ino|''Ino'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Sold in 1886<br>{{small|(fate unknown)}}
| <span style="display:none">160</span> {{cvt|160.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|
|-
| [[Marco Polo (1851 ship)|''Marco Polo'']]
| [[File:Marcopoloclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| [[Province of Canada]]<br>{{small|([[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John, NB]])}}
| Wrecked in 1884
| <span style="display:none">184</span> {{cvt|184.1|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| In 1852 she made England-Australia round trip in less than 6 months.
|-
| [[N.B. Palmer (clipper)|''N.B. Palmer'']]<ref>{{Cite web| last = Bruzelius| first = Lars| title = ''N.B. Palmer''| work = Clipper Ships: N.B. Palmer (1851)| publisher = The Virtual Maritime Archives| date = 1996-04-05| url = http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/NB_Palmer%281851%29.html| access-date = May 8, 2010}}</ref>{{Self-published source|date=June 2020}}
| [[File:Clippership N.B. Palmer by Wales.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Abandoned in 1892
| <span style="display:none">202</span> {{cvt|202.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|
|-
| [[USS Nightingale (1851)|''Nightingale'']]<ref>{{Cite web| last = Bruzelius| first = Lars| title = ''Nightingale''| work = Sailing Ships: Nightingale (1851)| publisher = The Virtual Maritime Archives| date = 2000-01-11| url = http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Nightingale%281851%29.html| access-date = May 8, 2010}}</ref>{{Self-published source|date=June 2020}}
| [[File:Nightingaleclipper2.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[Eliot, Maine|Eliot, ME]])}}
| Abandoned in 1893
| <span style="display:none">177</span> {{cvt|177|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|
|-
| ''North America''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston, MA]])}}
| Sold in 1865<br>{{small|fate unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">195</span> {{cvt|195|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| A clipper almost similar in size to ''The North American'', with which she is often misidentified due to the name(see Lloyd’s Register of American Shipping 1859 register 1567 and the same Register for the year 1864), she was designed by [[Donald McKay]] in the year 1851 and after service in the USA was sold to South America in 1865 and not listed by LLoyd's afterwards.<ref name="researchgate.net">[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327622688_The_Clipper_Ship_Redemptora_1851-1898_A_Study_in_Archaeology_History_and_Heritage_Management?_sg=6pwPVYW9eUT--c-QKpgKKyXwb0SZpNHKaEZ0-eTaB9JBDTwVQPkn3-u0KHoHMgau5WCRhuUq6KmT7Cq9zLq8RkUxoQ6Xc1ZhbcBT8FcD.9O-LddFcmB01c8kJ01qPvQ0bkb7ZXOWREC6eydMKyFCIK36JLLwpbC64h1EEV4n3BJBEsIgvwVPYDXqp9lMsbw The Clipper Ship Redemptora 1851-1898: A Study in Archaeology, History and Heritage Management]</ref>
|-
| ''North American''
| [[File:Clipper ship "North American" advertisement HN000400aA.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[Damariscotta, Maine|Damariscotta, ME]])}}
| Abandoned in 1898
| <span style="display:none">195</span> {{cvt|194|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Renamed Marianna VI, Philadelphia and finally Redemptora (1888) as a homage to princess Isabel of Brazil who abolished slavery in that year. A clipper ship built by Algernon Austin of Maine she was employed as an immigration ship during the Gold Rush and the American Civil War. Launched in 1851. Dimensions 194'x 38' x 28'. Almost sunk during her voyage from Brazil to Australia in 1888, she arrived badly damaged at Fremantle (WA) and was soon sold and used in the local trade as a coal hulk until abandoned on the shores of Jervoise Bay (WA) in 1898.<ref name="researchgate.net"/>
|-
| [[Northern Light (clipper)|''Northern Light'']]<ref name="Howe 1986">{{cite book |last1=Howe |first1=Octavius T. |last2=Matthews |first2=Frederick C. |title=American clipper ships, 1833-1858 |date=1986 |publisher=Dover |location=New York |isbn=0-486-25116-0}}</ref>{{rp|448-451}}
| [[File:Clipper ship Northern Light-1853-William Bradford-IMG 5873.JPG|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Abandoned in 1862
| <span style="display:none">180</span> {{cvt|180|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Medium clipper built in Boston and designed by naval architect [[Samuel Hartt Pook]]. In 1853, Northern Light set the record from San Francisco around Cape Horn to an east coast port (Boston) of 76 days 5 hours.
|-
| [[Shooting Star (clipper)|''Shooting Star'']]
| [[File:Shootingstarclipper1851.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Wrecked in 1867
| <span style="display:none">171</span> {{cvt|171|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''[[Snow Squall]]''
| [[File:Snow Squall 1851 clipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|([[Cape Elizabeth, Maine]])}}
| Condemned in 1864
| <span style="display:none">157</span> {{cvt|157|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Snow Squall'' was a small 800 ton clipper built for the China trade. When she was broken up, the largest surviving piece was used as a dock at [[Port Stanley]] in the [[Falkland Islands]]. At least 19 feet of her bow was also preserved, and now resides at a museum in [[Portland, Maine]]. It is the sole remaining example of the hundreds of American-built clipper ships.<ref>{{Cite web|title=HAER ME,3-PORTS,2- (sheet 1 of 10) - Clipper Ship SNOW SQUALL Bow, Spring Point Museum, Southern Maine Technical College, South Portland, Cumberland County, ME|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.me0230.sheet/?sp=1|website=Library of Congress|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref>
|-
| [[Swordfish (clipper)|''Swordfish'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">169</span> {{cvt|169.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Swordfish'' was built by William H Webb, and owned by Barclays & Livingston both of New York. She sailed from New York to San Francisco in 90 days under Captain David S Babcock.
|-
| [[Syren (clipper)|''Syren'']]
| [[File:Syrenclippersfpl.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">189</span> {{cvt|189|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Syren'' sailed in the San Francisco trade, transporting whaling products from Hawaii and the Arctic to [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]]. She had a long documented career that lasted until at least 1920, her ultimate fate is unknown.
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| [[White Squall (clipper) | ''White Squall'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1851
| United States
| Burned in 1853
| <span style="display:none">200</span> {{cvt|200|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''White Squall'' was an 1100-ton fast clipper sailing in the China trade; she was the last command of captain [[Benoni Lockwood III]] and burned in a fire in New York Harbor after only 2 years of service.<ref name="cutler" />{{rp|255}} <ref name="nyt">"The Great Conflagration: Three Clipper-Ships Destroyed: Total Loss of the ''Great Republic'': Burning of the ''White Squall'', and ''Joseph Walker''." ''New York Times'',  Dec. 28, 1853.</ref>
|-
| ''[[Witch of the Wave]]''
| [[File:Witchofthewave.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1851
| United States<br>{{small|(Portsmouth, NH)}}
| Broken up in 1886
| <span style="display:none">220</span> {{cvt|220|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by George Raynes of Portsmouth (NH), she held the record passage from Calcutta to Boston.
|-
| [[Bald Eagle (clipper)|''Bald Eagle'']]
| [[File:BALD EAGLE Clipper ship sailing card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Lost in 1861
| <span style="display:none">195</span> {{cvt|195|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by Donald McKay; set the record of 78 days 22 hours for a fully laden ship from San Francisco to New York.
|-
| [[Carrier Pigeon (ship)|''Carrier Pigeon'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|([[Bath, Maine|Bath, ME]])}}
| Sank in 1853
| <span style="display:none">175</span> {{cvt|175.5|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Celestial Empire (clipper)|''Celestial Empire'']]
| [[File:Celestialempireclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Abandoned in 1878
| <span style="display:none">193</span> {{cvt|193|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Challenger (clipper)|''Challenger'' (1852)]]
| [[File:Challengerclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[London]])}}
| Abandoned in 1871
| <span style="display:none">174</span> {{cvt|174|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by Richard & Henry Green in their [[Blackwall Yard]] for [[Hugh Hamilton Lindsay]], London. In 1871 she abandoned at 48°N, 13°W, southwest of the port of [[Plymouth, England]].
|-
| [[Golden South (1852)|''Golden South'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Burned in 1893
| <span style="display:none">183</span> {{cvt|183.9|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Golden West (clipper)|''Golden West'']]
| [[File:Clipper Ship Golden West, Outward Bound 1852 3m08.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">210</span> {{cvt|210|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''Hippogriffe''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|([[Dennis, Massachusetts|Dennis, MA]])}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Hippogriffe'' was launched in 1852 from Shiverick Shipyards in East Dennis, MA. It sailed 1,800 miles with a hunk of coral 18 inches in diameter in its hull.<ref name="capecodtimes.com"/>
|-
| [[John Gilpin (clipper)|''John Gilpin'']]
| [[File:JOHN GILPIN (Ship) (c112-01-50).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Abandoned in 1858
| <span style="display:none">195</span> {{cvt|195|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| She was built by Samuel Hall for owners Pierce, Hunnewell & Company (both Boston). Under Captain Justin Doane, she sailed from New York to San Francisco in 93 days.
|-
| ''[[National Eagle]]''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Gone by 1884
| <span style="display:none">179</span> {{cvt|179|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Medium clipper of New York built by Built 1852 in Medford, Mass. By Joshua T. Foster and Co. for Fisher & Co. of Boston – 996 tons, 179’ x 36’ x 24’. In 1854, she sailed from Boston to San Francisco in 134 days. She was driven ashore near [[Bari, Italy]] on her voyage to [[Flume, Austria]]. <ref name="Around the world in 500 days">{{cite book|title=Around the world in 500 days : the circumnavigation of the merchant bark Charles Stewart, 1883-1884, recounted with zest and detail|author=Freeman, Hattie Atwood|page=201|date=1999}}</ref>
|-
| [[USS Onward (1852)|''Onward'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Sold in 1884<br>{{small|(fate unknown)}}
| <span style="display:none">175</span> {{cvt|175|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Sea Nymph (clipper)|''Sea Nymph'']]
| [[File:SEA NYMPH (Ship) (c112-02-24).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|([[Fairhaven, Massachusetts|Fairhaven, MA]])}}
| Lost in 1861
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Sea Nymph'' was built in Fairhaven, MA and at 1253 tons, was one of the largest ships of her time. She was employed in the New York to San Francisco trade and carried freight as well as passengers. She was ultimately lost in a storm at Point Reyes, California in May, 1861.
|-
| [[Sovereign of the Seas (clipper)|''Sovereign of the Seas'']]
| [[File:Sovereignoftheseasdockedphoto.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Wrecked in 1859
| <span style="display:none">252</span> {{cvt|252|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Sovereign of the Seas'' was the fastest and longest ship yet built when she was launched in New York. She was designed and built by Donald Mackay for her owners Funke & Meinke of New York. She sailed from New York to San Francisco on her maiden voyage in 103 days, and achieved the fastest ever recorded speed of a sailing vessel at 22 knots. 
|-
| [[Westward Ho! (clipper)|''Westward Ho!'']]
| [[File:Westward Ho - Clipper (1852) Some ships of the clipper ship era, their builders, owners, and captains; (1913) 0035.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1852
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Burned in 1864
| <span style="display:none">220</span> {{cvt|220|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''Belle of the West''<ref name="capecodtimes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.capecodtimes.com/opinion/20180114/ghosts-of-clipper-ships-and-sea-captains-in-east-dennis|title=The ghosts of clipper ships and sea captains in East Dennis|author=Martha R. Lang|work=Cape Cod Times|date=January 14, 2018|access-date=July 7, 2019}}</ref>
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Dennis, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Belle of the West'' was launched in 1853 from Shiverick Shipyards in East Dennis, Massachusetts. Her captain was William F. Howes.
|-
| [[California (clipper ship)|''California'' (1853)]]
| [[File:California Clipper 500.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{n/a}} 
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Challenger (1853 clipper)|''Challenger'' (1853)]]
| [[File:CHALLENGER Clipper ship sailing card 37585 2.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Abandoned in 1875
| <span style="display:none">206</span> {{cvt|206|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| {{anchor|Dreadnought}}''Dreadnought''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Dreadnought%281853%29.html|title=ShipWiki, Dreadnought|access-date=2012-03-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00F14F83F5A17738DDDA00994DD405B888CF1D3|title=New York Times: May 19, 1908|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 May 1908|access-date=2012-03-25}}</ref>
| [[File:Dreadnought, a Fast Clipper Ship, circa 1860, print by Currier and Ives.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|([[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport, MA]])}}
| Lost in 1869<ref>{{Cite book|title=Famous American Ships; Being an Historical Sketch of the United States As Told Through Its Maritime Life|last=Braynard, Frank Osborn|date=1978|publisher=HASTINGS|pages=94|oclc=1020240046}}</ref> 
| <span style="display:none">212</span> {{cvt|212|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Dreadnought'' was a three-masted medium clipper ship built in 1853 by Currier & Townsend at Newburyport, MA. She was originally intended for the "Racehorse Line" of California clippers, but ended up sailing for the Red Cross Line of New York and Liverpool packets. In 1860 she set a new record for New York to Liverpool of only 9 days, 17 hours. She was ultimately lost in 1869.
|-
| [[Golden State (clipper)|''Golden State'']]
| [[File:1884 Photograph of the Clipper Ship "Golden State," Docked at Quebec.png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Wrecked in 1886
| <span style="display:none">188</span> {{cvt|188|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|
|-
| ''[[Great Republic]]''
| [[File:GreatRepublic ca1853 byButtersworth PEM.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Sunk in 1872
| <span style="display:none">400</span> {{cvt|400|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Designed by Donald MacKay and built in New York for owners A A Low & Brother, she was at 335 feet the largest wooden merchant sailing ship ever built, a record that still stands. Before she made her maiden voyage, however, a fire on shore spread to her dock, and she burned to the waterline. She was rebuilt and relaunched. Under Captain Limeburner, she ran from New York to San Francisco in 92 days.
|-
| [[Herald of the Morning (clipper)|''Herald of the Morning'']]
| [[File:HERALD OF THE MORNING Clipper ship sailing card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Unlisted in 1891
| <span style="display:none">203</span> {{cvt|203|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Kingfisher (clipper)|''Kingfisher'']]
| [[File:KINGFISHER Clipper ship sailing card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Broken up in 1890
| <span style="display:none">217</span> {{cvt|217|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| Live Yankee
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|([[Rockland, Maine|Rockland, ME]])}}
| Lost in 1861
| <span style="display:none">212</span> {{cvt|212|ft|m}}
| Extreme clipper ship built by Horrace Meriam of Rockland Maine.
|-
| [[Lookout (clipper)|''Lookout'']]
| [[File:LOOK OUT Clipper ship sailing card 37623 2.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|([[Warren, Rhode Island|Warren, RI]])}}
| Wrecked in 1878
| <span style="display:none">197</span> {{cvt|198|ft|m}} <!--For some reason this one does not sort right-->
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by Chase and Davis for E. Buckley and sons. Wrecked in the Japan Sea after being dismasted in a typhoon, 1878. 198' x38' x 22' 1291 tons.
|-
| [[Lord of the Isles (clipper)|''Lord of the Isles'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/>{{rp|pages=93–94}}<ref name="Lubbock">{{cite book |last=Lubbock |first=Basil |orig-year=1914 |year=1981 |title=The China Clippers |location=Glasgow |publisher=Brown, Son and Ferguson Ltd |isbn=0851741096 }}</ref>{{rp|page=82}}
| [[File:Lordoftheislesclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Greenock]])}}
| Abandoned in 1862
| <span style="display:none">210</span> {{cvt|210|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Iron hulled clipper built by Robert Scott & Co., Greenock. Carried tea from Shanghai to London in 96 days in 1855. Won the tea race 1856. Caught fire 24 July 1862 and was abandoned at sea. 770 tons OM, 691 tons NM.
|-
| [[Mimosa (ship)|''Mimosa'']]
| [[File:Velero Mimosa, Y Wladfa.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| Lost in 1872
| <span style="display:none">139</span> {{cvt|139.9|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Converted to carry Welsh settlers to Patagonia in 1865.
|-
| ''[[Neptune's Car]]''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|([[Portsmouth, Virginia|Portsmouth, VA]])}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%| This extreme clipper ship was built in 1853 by Page & Allen of Portsmouth, Virginia. Dimensions 216'×40'×23'6" and tonnage 1,616 (of cargo carrying volume—old measurement). Launched April 16, 1853 for Foster & Nickerson, New York.
|-
| [[Ocean Chief (clipper)|''Ocean Chief'']]
| {{n/a}} <!--The images used in the article are not free use-->
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|([[Thomaston, Maine|Thomaston, ME]])}}
| Burned in 1862
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Orient (clipper ship)|''Orient'']]
| [[File:Orient (clipper ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(London)}}
| Broken up in 1925
| <span style="display:none">184.4</span> {{cvt|184|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
|''Queen of Clippers''
| [[File:Clipper_ship,_Queen_of_Clippers_PU6462.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"|1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
|
| <span style="display:none">258</span> {{cvt|258|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|She was built at East Boston by Robert E. Jackson, the builder of ''John Bertram'' and ''Winged Racer''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The New Clipper Ship "Queen of Clippers".|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/News/BDA/BDA(1853-04-02).html|website=www.bruzelius.info|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref>
|-
| [[Red Jacket (clipper)|''Red Jacket'']]<ref name="MAGDE">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTYhAQAAMAAJ|editor=Doris A. Isaacson |title=Maine: A Guide "Down East"|edition=second |year=1970 |publisher=Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums, Courier-Gazette, Inc. |location=Rockland, Maine | pages = 261–262}} ([https://archive.org/details/maineguidedownea00federich First edition]).</ref>
| [[File:Redjacketclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Rockland, ME)}}
| Wrecked in 1885
| <span style="display:none">251</span> {{cvt|251|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Red Jacket'' was designed by [[Samuel Hartt Pook]], and built by the George Taylor yards of Rockland, Maine. During her maiden voyage from New York to Liverpool under Captain Asa Eldridge, she set an unbroken dock to dock speed record of 13 days, one hour and 25 minutes. She originally sailed the Liverpool to Melbourne run. In 1854 she set another record from Liverpool to Melbourne of 67 days, 13 hours. In 1870 she was sold into the Canadian timber trade, and in 1882 was sent to the Cape Verde Islands, where she expired as a coal hulk.
|-
| [[Romance of the Sea (clipper)|''Romance of the Sea'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(East Boston, MA)}}
| Disappeared in 1863
| {{convert|240|ft|1}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| In her nine year life, ''Romance of the Sea'' made six round-trip voyages between North Atlantic and Pacific Ocean ports before being lost during her seventh voyage.
|-
| [[Sweepstakes (clipper)|''Sweepstakes'']] 
| [[File:Clippership Sweepstakes.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Scrapped in 1862
| <span style="display:none">216</span> {{cvt|216.4|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| A clipper built by Westervelt & McKay, and owned by Grinnell, Minturn & Co of Boston. Under Captain George E Lane, she sailed from New York to San Francisco in 94 days. It held the record for the New York-Bombay run.
|-
| ''[[White Swallow]]''
| [[File:WHITE SWALLOW Clipper ship sailing card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Ocean Chief (clipper)|''Wild Ranger'']]{{efn|The ''Wild Ranger'' was renamed ''Ocean Chief'' in 1862 to act as a replacement after the former ship burned (See "Ocean Chief" entry).}}
| {{n/a}} <!--The images used in the article are not free use-->
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Sank in 1872
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Young America (clipper)|''Young America'']]
| [[File:Youngamericaclipperphoto.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Lost in 1886
| <span style="display:none">243</span> {{cvt|243|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by William Webb of New York.
|-
| ''Wide Awake''
| [[File:Wide Awake.png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1853
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| In 1857 she was sold at Bangkok and sailed for an unknown period under the Siamese flag.
| <span style="display:none">243</span> {{cvt|243|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by [[Ariel Patterson |Perrine, Patterson & Stack]].
|-
| [[Blue Jacket (clipper)|''Blue Jacket'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1854 
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}} 
| Burned in 1869
| <span style="display:none">235</span> {{cvt|235|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| She was an extreme [[clipper]] in the Liverpool and Australia trades, named after the blue jackets, a traditional name for sailors in the US and British navies.
|-
| ''[[Champion of the Seas]]''
| [[File:ChampionOfTheSeas ca1854 EastBoston Southworth Hawes MFABoston.png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}} 
| Burned in 1869
| <span style="display:none">202</span> {{cvt|202|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Designed by [[Donald McKay]], holds the speed record of 465 miles in 24 hours, set in 1854.<ref>{{citation|last=Lyon|first=Jane D|page=138|title=Clipper Ships and Captains|year=1962|location=New York|publisher=American Heritage Publishing|quote=Besides the breath-taking 465-nautical-mile (861 km) day's run of the Champion of the Seas, there are thirteen other cases of a ship's sailing over 400 nautical miles (740 km) in 24 hours... And with few exceptions all the port-to-port sailing records are held by the American clippers.}}</ref>
|-
| ''Commodore Perry''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Wrecked in 1859
| <span style="display:none">252</span> {{cvt|252|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|1967 ton extreme clipper ship built in 1854 by Donald McKay, East Boston for [[Black Ball Line (Liverpool)|Black Ball line]] of Australia clippers.
|-
| [[Driver (clipper)|''Driver'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Newburyport, MA)}}
| Lost in 1856
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Ganges (clipper)|''Ganges'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">192</span> {{cvt|192|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[James Baines (clipper)|''James Baines'']]
| [[File:The Clipper Ship James Baines - one of the Black Ball Line of Australian Packets belonging to Messrs James Baines and Co, Liverpool RMG PY8547.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}} 
| Burned in 1858{{efn|''James Baines'' was subsequently rebuilt as a coal barge, her final fate is unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">266</span> {{cvt|266|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Launched on 25 July from the East Boston shipyard of the famous ship builder Donald McKay in the USA for the Black Ball Line of James Baines & Co., Liverpool. achieved 21 knots speed in 1856. Under Captain C. McConnell, she sailed from Boston to Liverpool in 12 days, 6 hours.
|-
| ''[[Kosmopoliet]]''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1854
| Netherlands<br>{{small|([[Dordrecht]])}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Kosmopoliet'' was built by the shipyard of Cornelis Gips and Sons in Dordrecht. While two other ships followed; ''Kosmopoliet II'' (1865) & ''Kosmopoliet III'' (1871), little is known about them.
|-
| [[Lightning (clipper)|''Lightning'']]
| [[File:The Clipper Ship Lightning 1854 (1769 Tons Register). Messrs James Baines and Co Owners RMG PU6464.tiff|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Scuttled in 1869
| <span style="display:none">277</span> {{cvt|277|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by Donald McKay for James Baines of the Black Ball Line, Liverpool, for the Australia trade. Second fastest speed record 436 miles in 24 hours on maiden voyage Boston - Liverpool, and third fastest record of 430 miles in 24 hrs going to Australia.
|-
| [[Mary Robinson (clipper)|''Mary Robinson'']]
| [[File:MARY ROBINSON Clipper ship sailing card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Bath, ME)}}
| Sank in 1864
| <span style="display:none">215</span> {{cvt|215|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Ocean Telegraph / Light Brigade (clipper)|''Ocean Telegraph'']]{{efn|''Ocean Telegraph'' is also known by the name ''Light Brigade''.}}
| [[File:Light Brigade.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Sold in 1883<br>{{small|(Last reported in 1891)}}
| <span style="display:none">227</span> {{cvt|227|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Renamed ''Light Brigade'' 1863. A clipper ship built for Reed, Wade & Co., Boston for the New York to San Francisco run. Built by James O. Curtis, Medford, Massachusetts, to the design of Boston-based naval architect Samuel Hartt Pook. Launched 29 March 1854. Dimensions 227' × 40' × 23' and tonnage 1495 tons Old Measurement. A very sharp clipper said to be one of the most perfect ships ever built as no expense was spared to make her so.

|-
| [[Robin Hood (clipper)|''Robin Hood'']]
| [[File:ROBIN HOOD Clipper ship sailing card 144335 George D. Sutton.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|([[Medford, Massachusetts|Medford, MA]])}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">103</span> {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built in 1854 for Howes & Crowell of Boston, by Hayden & Cudworth of Medford.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Builders.html|title = Clipper Ships Built in the United States}}</ref> 
|-
| [[Santa Claus (clipper)|''Santa Claus'']]
| [[File:Santa_Claus_(clipper_ship)_sailing_card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Sank in 1863
| <span style="display:none">194</span> {{cvt|194|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by [[Donald McKay]] for Joseph Nickerson & Co.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015020225051?urlappend=%3Bseq=220%3Bownerid=13510798896015563-226 |last1= Howe |first1= Octavius T. |last2= Matthews |first2= Frederick C. |date= 1927 |title= American Clipper Ships 1833–1858 |volume= II |location= Salem, MA |publisher= Marine Research Society |pages= 544–545 |hdl= 2027/mdp.39015020225051?urlappend=%3Bseq=220 |name-list-style= amp |oclc= 312241}}</ref>
|-

| [[Stag (barque)|''Stag'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1854
| Province of Canada<br>{{small|([[LaHave, Nova Scotia|LaHave, NS]])}}
| Sank in 1863
| <span style="display:none">103</span> {{cvt|103.8|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built in LaHave, Nova Scotia, known for her dramatic [[Aberdeen bow]] and fast Atlantic passages.
|-
| [[Starlight (clipper)|''Starlight'']]
| [[File:Fitz Henry Lane - Starlight in Harbor (ca.1855).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">190</span> {{cvt|190|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Sunny South (clipper)|''Sunny South'']]
| [[File:HMS_Brisk_and_Emanuela.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United States<br>{{small|(New York, NY)}}
| Wrecked in 1861
| <span style="display:none">135</span> {{cvt|135.4|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| She was an [[extreme clipper]] and only full-sized sailing ship built by [[George Steers]]. Initially, she sailed in the California and Brazil trades. Sold in 1859 and renamed ''Emanuela'', she was considered to be the fastest [[Slave ship|slaver]] sailing out of [[Havana]]. The British [[Royal Navy]] captured ''Emanuela'' off the coast of Africa in 1860 with over 800 slaves aboard.
|-
| [[RMS Tayleur|''Tayleur'']]
| [[File:Tayleur.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1854
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Liverpool]])}}
| Wrecked in 1854
| <span style="display:none">230</span> {{cvt|230|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Designed by William Rennie of Liverpool and built for owners Charles Moore & Company.
|-
| ''[[Abbott Lawrence (clipper)|Abbott Lawrence]]''
| [[File:Clipper ship Abbott Lawrence.png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">202.5</span> {{cvt|202.5|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| The medium clipper ''Abbott Lawrence'', 1498 tons, was designed by Donald McKay. Her first owners were George B. Upton, John M. Forbes, and Eben Caldwell. Her first captain was Benjamin Hale.<ref name=Cutler>{{cite book | last =Cutler | first =Carl C. | title =Greyhounds of the Sea | publisher =United States Naval Institute | date =1967 | pages =440 }}</ref><ref name=McKay>{{cite book | last =McKay | first =Richard C. | title =Some Famous Sailing Ships and Their Builder Donald McKay | publisher =G.P. Putnam's Sons | date =1928 | pages =372 }}</ref>
|-
| [[Andrew Jackson (clipper)|''Andrew Jackson'']]
| [[File:Clipper ship Andrew Jackson sailing card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| United States<br>{{small|(Mystic, CT)}}
| Wrecked in 1868
| <span style="display:none">220</span> {{cvt|220|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by Irons & Grinnell of Mystic, CT and owned by J.H. Brower of New York. Under Captain J. E. Williams, it was one of only two clipper ships to complete the New York-San Francisco Cape Horn run in 89 days.
|-
| [[Carrier Dove (clipper)|''Carrier Dove'']]
| [[File:Carrier Dove, by Samual Buttersworth.png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| United States<br>{{small|([[Baltimore|Baltimore, MD]])}}
| Wrecked in 1876
| <span style="display:none">220</span> {{cvt|220|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Donald McKay (clipper)|''Donald McKay'']]<ref>{{cite web|author=Lars Bruzelius|date=January 5, 2001|title=Donald McKay|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Donald_McKay(1855).html}}</ref>{{Self-published source|date=June 2020}}
| [[File:Clipper Donald McKay.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| {{n/a}}
| Broken up in 1888
| <span style="display:none">266</span> {{cvt|266|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Named after her [[Donald McKay|designer]]. Extreme clipper, 2594 tons OM, 266&nbsp;ft, built for [[James Baines & Co.]], last extreme clipper ship built by Donald McKay.
|-
| [[Golden Fleece (clipper)|''Golden Fleece'']]
| [[File:GOLDEN FLEECE (Ship) (c112-01-40).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| United States<br>{{small|(Boston, MA)}}
| Wrecked in 1877
| <span style="display:none">222</span> {{cvt|222|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Mary Whitridge (1855 clipper)|''Mary Whitridge'']]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Clipper_Ship_Era/Chapter_16|title=The clipper ship era : an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews 1843-1869|last=Clark |first=Arthur H.|chapter=Chapter 16 |year=1910|publisher=New York|page=254|oclc=645117240}} {{PD-notice}}</ref>
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1855
| United States<br>{{small|(Baltimore, MD)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">168</span> {{cvt|168|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built in Baltimore, owned by Thomas Whitridge & Co. She was commanded by Captain Robert B. Cheesborough of Baltimore. She measured at 877 tons, with length of 168 feet, breadth 34 feet, depth 21 feet. On her maiden voyage Mary Whitridge sailed from [[Cape Charles, Virginia]] to Liverpool in just 13 days 7 hours. For many years she sailed under Captain Benjamin F. Cutler in the [[Old China Trade|China trade]]. Clark writes that she was regarded "the finest and fastest ship sailing out of Baltimore" at that time.
|-
| [[Royal Charter (ship)|''Royal Charter'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 186783 Royal Charter (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Deeside]])}}
| Wrecked in 1859
| <span style="display:none">236</span> {{cvt|236|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Schomberg (1855)|''Schomberg'']]
| [[File:The Schomberg 1855 in Aberdeen PRG-1373-19-38.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| Wrecked in 1855
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Thatcher Magoun (clipper)|''Thatcher Magoun'']]
| [[File:THATCHER MAGOUN, Baker Master Clipper ship sailing card.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1855
| United States<br>{{small|(Medford, MA)}}
| Lost in 1884
| <span style="display:none">200</span> {{cvt|200|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| an extreme clipper launched in 1855, was named after the father of ship building on the Mystic, Thatcher Magoun, who died the year that she was launched.
|-
|''Titan''
|[[File:Titan (1855 Clipper).jpg|80px]]
| align="center" |1855
| United States
| Abandoned in 1858
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%" | She was built in 1855 by Roosevelt & Joyce at New York, and was owned by D. G. & W. Bacon of Boston. She was commanded at different times by Captain Oliver Eldridge and J. Henry Sears, both of Boston. Her maiden voyage was a charter carrying French troops to the Crimea. In 1857 she carried 6,900 bales of cotton from New Orleans to Liverpool, the largest cargo of cotton ever shipped up to that date by a sailing vessel. The London Times said of her in 1857, "''Titan,'' the largest and finest clipper in the world, has just returned from the Crimea, and will run in the [[White Star Line]] to Australia." Subsequently she sailed to Melbourne and back. In 1857 a gale off Liverpool forced her to cut away the main and mizzen masts in order to wear, and thus she made her way into Liverpool. The next year she was abandoned at sea.<ref name="Some">
{{Cite book | title = Some ships of The Clipper Ship Era, Their Builders, Owners, and Captains | publisher = Boston, Mass. : Printed for the State Street Trust Company
 | year = 1913 | location = Boston | pages = 36}}</ref>
|-
| ''Wild Hunter''<ref name="capecodtimes.com"/>
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1855<ref name="capecodtimes.com"/>
| United States<br>{{small|(Dennis, MA)}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[King Philip (clipper)|''King Philip'']]
| [[File:King Philip stern at Ocena Beach.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1856
| United States<br>{{small|([[Alna, Maine|Alna, ME]])}}
| Wrecked in 1878
| <span style="display:none">182</span> {{cvt|182|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Lammermuir (1856 clipper)|''Lammermuir'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/>{{rp|pages=103–104}}
| [[File:Lammermuir-1856.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1856
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Sunderland]])}}
| Wrecked in 1863
| <span style="display:none">178</span> {{cvt|178|ft|m}} 
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by William Pile of Sunderland for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son - probably his first clipper. Wrecked on the Amherst Reef in the Macclesfield Channel, Gaspar Strait on 31 December 1863. 178' x 34' x 22', 953 NRT.
|-
| [[Robin Hood (ship)|''Robin Hood'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/>{{rp|pages=104–106}}
| [[File:Samuel Walters - The sailing ship Robin Hood (1857).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1856
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| Sank in 1864
| <span style="display:none">204</span> {{cvt|204|ft|m}} 
| style="font-size: 85%"| A fast, fine-lined tea clipper. Fastest run back from China was 99 days from [[Fuzhou]] (Foochow) to London in 1858 during the Southwest Monsoon.
|-
| ''[[Duncan Dunbar]]''
| [[File:The clipper Duncan - King Ferdinand II of Portugal (cropped).png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1857
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Sunderland)}}
| Wrecked in 1865
| <span style="display:none">260</span> {{cvt|260|ft|m}} 
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Newcastle (clipper)|''Newcastle'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 114308 Sailing ship Newcastle.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1857
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Sunderland)}}
| Wrecked in 1883
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Windsor Castle (1857 ship)|''Windsor Castle'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 111588 Windsor Castle (Ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1857
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Sunderland)}}
| Wrecked in 1884
| <span style="display:none">195</span> {{cvt|195.5|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''Ellen Rodger''
| [[File:The_clipper_%27Ellen_Rodger%27_RMG_BHC3316.tiff|80px]]
| align="center"| 1858
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Greenock]])}}
| Wrecked in 1886 in the [[Gaspar Strait]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sailing Ships: "Ellen Rodger" (1858)|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Ellen_Rodger(1858).html|website=www.bruzelius.info|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref>
| <span style="display:none">155</span> {{cvt|155.66|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| A fullrigged wooden clipper built in 1858 by Robert Steele & Co., Greenock.
|-
| [[Scawfell (clipper)|''Scawfell'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983" />{{rp|pages=115–116}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Abandonment of the Scawfell | work=Shipping and Mercantile Gazette |date=31 May 1883}}</ref>
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1858
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Workington]])}}
| Abandoned in 1883
| <span style="display:none">195</span> {{cvt|198|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built of wood, strengthened by iron braces, by Charles Lamport of Workington, Cumberland. In 1861 she made the record voyage under Captain Robert Thomson of 88 days from Whampoa to Liverpool (85 days pilot to pilot).
|}

===1860s===
{| class="sortable wikitable"
|-
! Name
! class="unsortable"| Image 
! width=70pt|Year of launch
! width=100pt| Build location
! width=120pt|Fate
! width=120pt|[[Length overall|Length<br>overall]] <!--The .0s are kept on some numbers for sorting purposes-->
! class="unsortable"| Short summary
|-
| [[Fiery Cross (clipper)|''Fiery Cross'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983">{{cite book |last=MacGregor |first=David R. |date= 1983|title=The Tea Clippers, Their History and Development 1833-1875 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press Limited |isbn=0-85177-256-0}}</ref>{{rp|page=120–123}}
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 149243 Fiery Cross (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1860
| [[United Kingdom]]<br>{{small|([[Liverpool]])}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">185</span> {{cvt|185.0|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| First tea clipper home in 1861,1862, 1863 and 1865. Last cargo of tea carried in 1872/73 season. Entered general trade, with the rig reduced, at some point, to barque for economy (as shown in image).
|-
| [[Flying Spur (clipper)|''Flying Spur'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1860
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Aberdeen]])}}
| Wrecked in 1881
| <span style="display:none">184</span> {{cvt|184|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''Great Australia''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1860
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Liverpool)}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Queen of Nations (clipper ship)|''Queen Of Nations'']]
| [[File:Clipper Queen of Nations.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1861
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| Wrecked in 1881
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[The Murray (clipper ship)|''The Murray'']]
| [[File:Murray (clipper ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1861
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">193</span> {{cvt|193.7|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Cornwallis (1862)|''Cornwallis'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1862
| {{unknown}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Coonatto (clipper ship)|''Coonatto'']]
| [[File:Coonatto (clipper ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1863
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[London]])}}
| Wrecked in 1876
| <span style="display:none">200</span> {{cvt|200|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Cremorne (clipper)|''Cremorne'']]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cprr.org/Museum/RR_Shipped_by_Sea-Table.html|title=Railroads Shipped by Sea|author=Wendell W. Huffman|work=CPRR.org|access-date=May 9, 2019}}</ref>
| [[File:CREMORNE (Ship) (c112-01-17).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1863
| [[United States]]<br>{{small|([[Mystic, Connecticut|Mystic, CT]])}}
| Lost in 1870
| <span style="display:none">200</span> {{cvt|200|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Delivered Central Pacific locomotive CP11 to San Francisco, 1865. Left San Francisco for Liverpool, June 1, 1870 and disappeared.
|-
| [[Serica (clipper)|''Serica'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/>{{rp|page=146}}
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1863
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Greenock]])}}
| Wrecked in 1872
| <span style="display:none">185</span> {{cvt|185.9|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"|The penultimate wooden-built clipper before Robert Steele's yard changed to composite construction, ''Serica'' was the first tea clipper home in 1864 and only beaten by ''Fiery Cross'' in 1865 because no tug was available.
|-
| [[USS Vanderbilt (1862)|Three Brothers (clipper)]]
| [[File:Three Brothers (ship, 1875) - Bancroft Library.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1862
| United States<br>{{small|([[New York City|New York, NY]])}}
| Scrapped in 1899
| <span style="display:none">331</span> {{cvt|331.0|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Starboard-side view of three-masted sailing ship, US flag at stern; workers and equipment on deck. Was the USS Vanderbilt before it was sold in 1873 to Howe & Brothers of San Francisco.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/60765713/?terms=%22Three%2BBrothers%22%2B%22the%2Blargest%2Bsailing%22 |title=The Largest Sailing Vessel Aloat-The old Steamship Vanderbilt Remodeled as the Three Brothers|place=Brooklyn, New York|work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=1874-05-20|access-date=2020-08-17}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Taeping]]''<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/>{{rp|pages=146–147}}
| [[File:Taeping (clipper, 1863) - SLV H91.325-1033.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1863
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenock)}}
| Wrecked in 1871
| <span style="display:none">183</span> {{cvt|183.7|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| The first composite tea clipper built by Robert Steele, ''Taeping'' won the [[Great Tea Race of 1866|1866 tea race]] by the closest margin over ''Ariel''. First home in 1867, overtaking ''Serica'' who had left 2 days earlier.
|-
| [[Wild Deer (1863 clipper)|''Wild Deer'']]
| [[File:Wild_Deer_(ship,_1863)_-_natlib.nz_236422.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1863
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| Wrecked in 1883
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| China tea clipper of 1016 tons, built in 1863 for the Albion Shipping Co. In 1871 she was chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Co., and diverted to transport immigrants to New Zealand. She made ten voyages to Port Chalmers before being wrecked off Cloughey, County Down, on a trip from Glasgow to Port Chalmers in 1883.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Wild Deer {{!}} NZETC|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Bre01Whit-t1-body-d48.html|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Wild Deer (Ship)|url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22397684|date=1863-01-01|website=Wild Deer (Ship) {{!}} Items {{!}} National Library of New Zealand {{!}} National Library of New Zealand|language=en|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref>
|-
| [[City of Adelaide (1864)|''City of Adelaide'']]
| [[File:SV City Adelaide Dutton Lithograph.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1864
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Sunderland]])}}
| Awaiting restoration
| <span style="display:none">244</span> {{cvt|244.1|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''Golden Spur''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1864
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Guernsey]])}}
| Lost in 1879
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Lammermuir (1864 clipper)|''Lammermuir'']]<ref name="LR1871">{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Lloyd's Register of Shipping |url=https://archive.org/stream/lloydsregisters32unkngoog#page/n4/mode/2up |publisher=Lloyd's Register |date= 1871|access-date=21 December 2014 }}</ref>
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1864
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(London)}}
| Lost in 1876
| <span style="display:none">200</span> {{cvt|200|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by William Pile of Sunderland for John "Jock" "White Hat" Willis & Son. 
|-
| [[Ariel (clipper)|''Ariel'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/>{{rp|pages=152–157}}
| [[File:Jack Spurling - ARIEL & TAEPING, China Tea Clippers Race.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1865
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenock)}}
| Lost in 1872
| <span style="display:none">197</span> {{cvt|197.4|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Of composite construction and with lines for good results in light winds, was second tea clipper home in 1866 in an extremely close finish determined by the height of tide to allow entry to her dock. Always thought of as a particularly fast ship. Presumed lost in 1872 due to being pooped by a following sea - her lack of buoyancy aft meant that she was always at risk of this.
|-
| ''[[Fusi Yama]]''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1865
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Glasgow]])}}
| Sank in 1870
| <span style="display:none">165</span> {{cvt|165.5|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''[[John R. Worcester]]''
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1865
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| {{unknown}}
| <span style="display:none">191</span> {{cvt|191.5|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Seminole (clipper)|''Seminole'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1865
| United States<br>{{small|(Mystic, CT)}}
| {{unknown}}
| {{unknown}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Sir Lancelot (clipper)|''Sir Lancelot'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/>
| [[File:Sirlancelotclipper.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1865
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenock)}}
| Lost in 1895
| <span style="display:none">197</span> {{cvt|197.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Taitsing (clipper)|''Taitsing'']]
| [[File:The British clipper 'Taitsing' (Great Arrow) off Hong Kong.png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1865
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| Sank in 1883
| <span style="display:none">192</span> {{cvt|192.0|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Yatala (clipper ship)|''Yatala'']]
| [[File:Yatala (clipper ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1865
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| Wrecked in 1872
| <span style="display:none">215</span> {{cvt|215|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[HMAS Tingira|''Sobraon'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 100120.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1866
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| Broken up in 1941
| <span style="display:none">317</span> {{cvt|317|ft|m}}{{efn|This may or may not reflect ''Sobraon's'' final form, as she was converted from a clipper into a training ship.}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''Titania''
| [[File:Jack_Spurling_-_Titania_(british_tea_clipper).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1866
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenock)}}
| Broken up in 1910
| <span style="display:none">200</span> {{cvt|200|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| She was a composite tea clipper built by Robert Steele & Co., Greenock and commanded by Captain Robert "Bobby" Deas, former master of ''Ganges'', in the 1867 tea race. [[Ariel (clipper)|''Ariel'']] was her sister ship.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shady Isle Pirate Society|url=http://shadyislepirates.com/|website=Shady Isle Pirate Society|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sailing Ships: Titania (1866)|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Titania(1866).html|website=www.bruzelius.info|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref>
|-
| [[Lahloo (clipper)|''Lahloo'']] 
| [[File:Lahloo (ship, 1867) - SLV H91.250-135.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1867
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenock)}}
| Lost in 1872
| <span style="display:none">191</span> {{cvt|191.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Leander (clipper)|''Leander'']]
| [[File:Leanderclippersfpl.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1867
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| Broken up in 1901
| <span style="display:none">215</span> {{cvt|215.5|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Kaisow (clipper)|''Kaisow'']]
|
| align="center"| 1868
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenock)}}
| Lost in 1891
| <span style="display:none">193</span> {{cvt|193.2|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[South Australian (clipper ship)|''South Australian'']]
| [[File:South Australian (clipper ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1868
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Sunderland)}}
| Lost in 1889
| <span style="display:none">201</span> {{cvt|201|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Thermopylae (clipper)|''Thermopylae'']]
| [[File:Thermopylaeclipperphoto.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1868
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Aberdeen)}}
| Scuttled in 1907
| <span style="display:none">212</span> {{cvt|212|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| An extreme composite clipper ship built by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London for the White Star Line of Aberdeen.
|-
| [[Windhover (clipper ship)|''Windhover'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1868
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| Wrecked in 1889
| <span style="display:none">201</span> {{cvt|201.1|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Ambassador (clipper)|''Ambassador'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 125739 British Ambassador (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1869
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(London)}}
| Abandoned in 1895
| <span style="display:none">176</span> {{cvt|176|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''[[Cutty Sark]]''
| [[File:Cutty Sark (16719233476).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1869
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Dumbarton]])}}
| Museum ship<br>{{small|([[Greenwich]], UK)}}
| <span style="display:none">280</span> {{cvt|280|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Glory of the Seas (clipper)|''Glory of the Seas'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1869
| United States<br>{{small|(East Boston, MA)}}
| Scrapped in 1923
| {{convert|250|ft|1}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| The last merchant sailing vessel built by Donald McKay
|-
| [[Miako (barque)|''Miako'']]
| {{n/a}}
| align="center"| 1869
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Sunderland)}}
| Unlisted in 1912
| <span style="display:none">160</span> {{cvt|160.1|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Norman Court (clipper)|''Norman Court'']]
| [[File:Normancourtclippersfpl.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1869
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| Sank in 1883
| <span style="display:none">197</span> {{cvt|197.4|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Osaka (barque)|''Osaka'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 145579 Osaka (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1869
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Sunderland)}}
| Wrecked in 1904
| <span style="display:none">195</span> {{cvt|195|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Wylo (clipper)|''Wylo'']]<ref name="MacGregor 1983" />
| [[File:Wylo.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1869
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenock)}}
| Broken up in 1886
| <span style="display:none">192</span> {{cvt|192.9|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|}

===1870s - 1890s===
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Name
! class="unsortable"| Image 
! width=70pt|Year of launch
! width=100pt| Build location
! width=120pt|Fate
! width=120pt|[[Length overall|Length<br>overall]] <!--The .0s are kept on some numbers for sorting purposes-->
! class="unsortable"| Short summary
|-
| [[Blackadder (clipper)|''Blackadder'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 133789 Blackadder (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1870
| [[United Kingdom]]<br>{{small|([[Greenwich]])}}
| Wrecked in 1905
| <span style="display:none">197</span> {{cvt|216.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Blackadder was built by Maudsley, Sons & Field at [[Greenwich]] for [[Jock Willis Shipping Line|John Willis]]. She was the sister ship of ''Hallowe'en'' (see entry below). She was wrecked on November 5, 1908 whilst on passage from Barry to Bahia loaded with coal.
|-
| [[Hallowe'en (clipper)|''Hallowe’en'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 141003 Halloween (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1870
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Greenwich)}}
| Wrecked in 1887
| <span style="display:none">197</span> {{cvt|216.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built by Maudsley, Sons & Field at [[Greenwich]] for John Willis, she was the sister ship to ''Blackadder''. Due to faults in her sister ship which caused dismasting on her maiden voyage, ''Hallowe'en'' was not handed over to Willis for nearly 18 months after her launch due to protracted legal action. ''Hallowe'en'' was fast in light airs and recorded many fast passages from China. In 1887 she was on passage from [[Fuzhou]] (Foochow) loaded with tea and was wrecked off [[Salcombe]] in the [[United Kingdom]].
|-
| [[Lothair (clipper)|''Lothair'']]
| [[File:S.V Lothair.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1870
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[London]])}}
| Lost in 1910
| <span style="display:none">191</span> {{cvt|191.8|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Lothair'' was one of the fastest tea clippers built. On her maiden voyage under Captain Emlyn Peacock, departing London on 10 September 1870, she reached Yokohoma in 135 days.<ref name="MacGregor 1983"/> She was later acquired by [[Killick Martin & Company]] in 1873, and then by William Bowen in 1885. She was ultimately lost in 1910 for unknown reasons.
|-
| [[Loch Ard (ship)|''Loch Ard'']]
| [[File:Loch Ard (ship, 1873) - SLV H91.108-1068.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1873
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Scotstoun]])}}
| Wrecked in 1878
| <span style="display:none">263</span> {{cvt|263|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built for the [[Loch Line]], she was one of the last clippers built. Her trading route spanned from Great Britain and Australia, but ended when she ran aground on a reef on June 1, 1878.
|-
| [[Rodney (clipper)|''Rodney'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 169087 Rodney (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1874
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(London)}}
| Wrecked in 1901
| <span style="display:none">235</span> {{cvt|235.6|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Rodney'' was an iron-hulled clipper built for the [[Immigration to Australia|Australian immigration]] trade. In 1882, she tied a record set by '' Patriarch'' (in 1870) by sailing from [[The Lizard]] to [[Sydney]] in 67 days.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shipmodelersassociation.org/research/fam9811.htm?id_sma=1019SMA922390|title=The Rodney|work=www.shipmodelersassociation.org|access-date=July 16, 2019}}</ref> She was eventually sold to a new owner in [[Nantes]], and wrecked on the coast of [[Cornwall]] in 1901.
|-
| ''[[Loch Vennachar]]''
| [[File:Loch Vennachar (ship, 1875) - SLV H99.220-6.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1875
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Glasgow]])}}
| Wrecked in 1905
| <span style="display:none">250</span> {{cvt|250|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| [[Torrens (clipper ship)|''Torrens'']]
| [[File:Torrens (ship, 1875) - NMM P6434.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1875
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Sunderland]])}}
| Broken up in 1910
| <span style="display:none">222</span> {{cvt|222|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built in Sunderland and designed to carry passengers and cargo between London and [[Port Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]. She was the fastest ship to sail on that route. ''Torrens'' is the last full-rigged composite passenger clipper ever built.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABYZAAAAIAAJ&q=Torrens+last+clipper|title=Where Ships are Born: Sunderland 1346-1946; a History of Shipbuilding on the River Wear|author=[[J. W. Smith]], [[T. S. Holden]]|publisher=Thomas Reed|year=1946|page=14}}</ref> She is also the last sailing ship on which [[Joseph Conrad]] would serve before embarking on his writing career.
|-
| [[Hereward (ship)|''Hereward'']]
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 142363 Hereward (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1877
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| Wrecked in 1898
| <span style="display:none">254</span> {{cvt|254|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| 
|-
| ''[[Florence (clipper)|Florence]]''
| [[File:SS Florence.png|80px]]
| align="center"| 1877
| United States<br>{{Small|(Maine)}}
| Foundered 1902
| <span style="display:none">225</span> {{cvt|225|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| Built in [[Bath, Maine]] to transport goods between [[California]] and the Eastern US Coast. She disappeared off [[Cape Flattery]] during a storm in 1902 and was believed to have sunk. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Matthews |first=F C |date=1926 |title=American Ship Florence |url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmarinerev2326paci/page/n567/mode/2up?q=%22American+Ship+Florence%22 |journal=Pacific Marine Review |volume=23 |pages=501, 512 |via=Archive.org}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Cimba]]''
| [[File:StateLibQld 1 128373 Cimba (ship).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1878
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|([[Aberdeen]])}}
| Wrecked in 1915
| <span style="display:none">223</span> {{cvt|223|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Cimba'' sailed in the wool trade between London and Sydney for 20 years, from 1878 to 1898. Under her Norwegian owners, ''Cimba''{{'}}s chief cargo was lumber. She carried firewood from the Baltic to East Indian Dock in Aberdeen Bay, and made a fast passage from [[Dublin]] to the St. Lawrence of 14 days.
|-
| [[Cromdale (clipper)|''Cromdale'']]
| [[File:Cromdale (ship, 1891) - SLV H91.325-1436.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1891
| United Kingdom<br>{{small|(Glasgow)}}
| Wrecked in 1913
| {{n/a}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Cromdale'' was the last clipper to be built for the Australian wool trade before it became unprofitable by sail. By the time of her launch, larger vessels such as [[ocean liner]]s were being built that did not require frequent stops for refueling. 
|}

==Modern clipper ships==
The following clipper ships were built in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, they were inspired by the historical Clipper era which peaked in the 1850s.

{| class="sortable wikitable" width="80%"
|-
! Name
! width="5%" class="unsortable"| Image 
! width="10%"| Year of launch
! Build location
! Status
! [[Length overall|LOA]]
! class="unsortable" width="40%"| Short summary
|-
| ''[[Cisne Branco]]''
| [[File:Cisne-2g.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 1999
| [[Netherlands]]<br>{{small|([[South Holland]])}}
| Active
| <span style="display:none">249</span> {{cvt|249|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Cisne Branco'' is a steel-hulled [[full-rigged ship]] that was built in the style of a classic clipper. She is used as a training ship for the [[Brazilian Navy]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QgMRudqoLGQC&q=Cisne+Branco+clipper&pg=PA27|title=Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World|author=Otmar Schäuffelen|publisher=Hearst Books|year=2005|page=27|author-link=Otmar Schäuffelen|isbn=9781588163844}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Stad Amsterdam]]''
| [[File:Stad Amsterdam 2009c.jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 2000
| Netherlands<br>{{small|(South Holland)}}
| Active{{efn|''Stad Amsterdam'' was modeled after the mid-19th century frigate ''Amsterdam'', but is not a replica due to her hull}}
| <span style="display:none">250</span> {{cvt|250|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Stad Amsterdam'' is a unique modern "extreme" clipper that was intended to be a replica of the mid-19th century frigate ''Amsterdam''. She ended up not being built as a reproduction, and sails as a passenger clipper ship.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QgMRudqoLGQC&q=Stad+amsterdam+clipper&pg=PA243|title=Chapman Great Sailing Ships of the World|author=Otmar Schäuffelen|publisher=Hearst Books|year=2005|page=243|author-link=Otmar Schäuffelen|isbn=9781588163844}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Shabab Oman II]]''
| [[File:The Shabab Oman II on the last day of the Rouen Armada 2019, on the River Seine from Rouen to Le Havre ... (48085455488).jpg|80px]]
| align="center"| 2013
| [[Romania]]<br>{{small|([[Galați]])}}
| Active
| <span style="display:none">285</span> {{cvt|285|ft|m}}
| style="font-size: 85%"| ''Shabab Oman II'' was built in Romania for the [[Royal Navy of Oman]] as a training vessel. She is designed as a clipper ship with a sailing speed of 17 knots.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Oman/New-three-mast-clipper-to-replace-diplomatic-vessel-Shabab-Oman-29qi |title=New three mast clipper to replace diplomatic vessel Shabab Oman |newspaper=Muscat Daily |first=M |last=Najmuz Zafar |date=19 May 2013 |access-date=14 January 2014 |archive-date=27 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527063259/http://www.muscatdaily.com/Archive/Oman/New-three-mast-clipper-to-replace-diplomatic-vessel-Shabab-Oman-29qi |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sailtraininginternational.org/vessel/shabab-oman-ii/|title=Biography (Shabab Oman II)|publisher=Sail training International|access-date=July 11, 2019}}</ref>

|}

==See also==
{{portal|Oceans}}
*[[ARM Cuauhtémoc (BE01)|ARM ''Cuauhtémoc'' (Mexico)]]
*[[Clipper]]
*[[Extreme clipper]]
*[[Ocean liner]]
*[[Bibliography of early American naval history]]
*[[Bibliography of 18th-19th century Royal Naval history]]
*[[Tall Ships' Races]]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

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