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To: SunkenCiv

A massive wooden sailing ship. Quite remarkable, actually, for its day. But the current champion, the Royal Clipper, is larger, and much faster.


14 posted on 01/24/2022 2:14:17 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

They’re not haulin’ coal. :^) Just diamonds.

https://www.starclippers.com/us-dom/our-fleet/tall-ships/introducing-royal-clipper.html


18 posted on 01/24/2022 2:18:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ought-six

Probably doesn’t haul much coal, though.


21 posted on 01/24/2022 2:33:30 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, though and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ought-six

And not wood


35 posted on 01/24/2022 4:08:34 PM PST by Cold Heart
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To: ought-six

Didn’t Francis Drake circumcise the world with a 100 foot clipper?

I thought I read that somewhere, like “The History of the World according to High School students.”


39 posted on 01/24/2022 4:47:55 PM PST by Disambiguator
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