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Extreme Clipper
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An extreme clipper is a clipper designed to sacrifice cargo capacity for speed. They had a bow lengthened above the water, a drawing out and sharpening of the forward body, and the greatest breadth further aft. Extreme clippers were built in the period 1845 to 1855.

clipper cargo speed

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  1. Clark, The Clipper Ship Era, pp. 65–66. https://books.google.com/books?id=FKUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA65#v=onepage&f=false
  2. http://www.medfordhistorical.org/medford-history/about-medford/medford-built-sailing-ships/
  3. Boston Daily Atlas, November 29, 1851
  4. The Boston Daily Atlas, August 4, 1852
  5. Clark, Arthur H. (1910). The Clipper Ship Era, An Epitome of Famous American and British Clipper Ships, Their Owners, Builders, Commanders, and Crews, 1843–1869. Camden, ME: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. https://books.google.com/books?id=FKUZAAAAYAAJ. 
  6. "Clipper ships", Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature, and companion to the Encyclopædia Britannica. American Supplement., 2 (9th ed.), New York, Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart, 1884, p. 151, https://books.google.com/books?id=fIlMAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22extreme%20clipper%22&lr&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is&num=100&as_brr=4&pg=PA151#v=onepage&q=%22extreme%20clipper%22&f=false 
  7. Boston Daily Atlas, July 29, 1852
  8. Boston Daily Atlas, March 6, 1851
  9. Boston Daily Atlas, December 29, 1852
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