My grandfather was a deckhand on a Clipper ship around the turn of the last century, I do not know what ship but I remember my grandmother buying me model kits of the Cutty Sark to put together in the 60’s. I have a large wooden model of it now. This would be almost on a scale as losing the USS Constitution or “Old Ironsides” which is a registered active duty Navy vessel for anyones information. And it was the Panama canal that pretty much doomed the clippers like The Flying Cloud and Thermapyle (SP?).
