At the 'crest of the clipper wave' year of 1852, there were 200 clippers rounding Cape Horn. .... In 1852 she made England-Australia round trip in less than 6 months. The Mary Whitridge, 1855, built in Baltimore, owned by Thomas Whitridge ...
In
the middle third of the 19th Century, the clippers which carried
cargoes of tea from China to ... She arrived in London 15 days before
the sailing ships. ... The British East India Company's monopoly of the tea trade from China to Britain ceased ...
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