tea clipper

See also: tea-clipper

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Noun

tea clipper (plural tea clippers)

  1. A clipper or fast-sailing vessel formerly employed in the tea trade.
    • 1929 February 3, Warren Irvin, “Gallant Wooden Vessels Survive; Stanch Ships from the Era of Sail and the Early Days of Steam Are Still in Use Though Dying One by One Ended as a Coal Hulk. […]”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 July 2025:
      There was the Lightning whose record of thirteen days from Boston to Liverpool, many a steam freighter today cannot beat. There was the Flying Cloud, that sailed from New York around the Horn to Frisco in eighty-nine days. Famous clippers both of them, like the Hurricane, Stag Hound, and the Great Republic. But they are gone like the British tea clippers, the Titania, Spindrift, Caliph and Lothair, and the Lahloo which won the race from Foo Chow to London in 1870, in ninety-seven days. The Cutty Sark is perhaps the only old tea clipper still afloat.
    • 1978 December 31, Ken Ringle, “Century-Old Laws Still Rule Seamen”, in The Washington Post‎[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 July 2025:
      Their wealth of sails (one memorable tea clipper had 63) demanded huge crews while their narrow holds limited them to relatively small cargoes and correspondingly small margins of profit.
    • 1989 July 2, Sam Burchell, “Around Home: Ship Models”, in Los Angeles Times‎[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 July 2025:
      The variety is endless: Viking longboats, Portuguese carracks, Spanish galleons, British men-of-war, American tea clippers, paddle-wheel steamers and those swift, sleek ocean liners of the 1930s.
    • 2007 May 21, James Sturcke, Peter Walker, agencies, “Fire devastates Cutty Sark”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[4], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 August 2013:
      The opening of the Suez canal, just after the Cutty Sark was built, quickly made tea clippers redundant as steamers benefited from a shorter sea route.
    • 2022 April 11, Robert Hardman, “Will you dare climb 70ft up the Cutty Sark's rigging? Famed ship offers London's newest and scariest attraction. So ROBERT HARDMAN strapped on the safety gear and braved a sneak preview”, in Daily Mail‎[5], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 April 2022:
      Built in 1869, it was one of the last tea clippers used to transport goods to Britain from as far as Australia

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