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Baltimore clippers

Scope note

Use for fast, powerful seagoing watercraft, usually schooner- or brig-rigged, with fine entrance, long run, moderate to pronounced drag, and strong deadrise; built in the first half of the 19th century and often involved in illegal trades, either as smugglers or slavers, or as revenue vessels trying to catch smugglers.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000232664

Broader Terms used

<watercraft by form>

Term used for

clippers, Baltimore

Equivalent Terms used

Baltimore clipper

Created

13yrs ago

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