A. Aubrey Bodine :: (American, 1906 - 1970) A sailor looking at a clipper ship, 1940′s
That’ll be a windjammer, not a clipper.
Interesting: I thought “windjammer” was just a vague name for “big multi-mast sailing ship” and that a ship type was “sloop”, “schooner”, “barque”,”clipper” etc.
I have Learned A New Thing.
It turns out, according to Wikipedia but also “A History of Ships and Seafaring” (C. Canby, 1963) and “The Lore of Ships” (Svensson, Strand & Leuven, 1997) that clippers had 3 masts and were built for speed, while windjammers (more than three masts) were built for capacity.
But of course it’s never that simple, because a windjammer could also be a schooner (”Thomas W. Lawson”)…
…or a barque (”France II”)…
…or even a full-rigged ship (”Preussen”)…
All of this is (a) not my division and (b) excessively complicated, so I’m going to go do something simple like a novel rewrite, or cataloguing polearms, or herding cats at a crossroads.
But complicated or not, sailing ships are really…
…very pretty.
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