On Nov. 13, 1856, witnesses on San Francisco’s shoreline were astonished by the sight of a pregnant 19-year-old girl guiding a grand, 216-foot-long clipper ship into port. Mary Ann Patten had spent ...

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A fire in London has badly damaged the historic sailing ship Cutty Sark. The vessel was the fastest ship of its day and it was one of the last relics of the 19th century tea trade between China and ...

GREENWICH, England (AP) _ A spectacular fire caused heavy damage to the clipper ship Cutty Sark on Monday, adding millions to the cost of restoring one of London’s proudest maritime relics. The cause ...

As we lounged on deck on the Royal Clipper, moored off Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda, we couldn’t help but notice the flotilla of pleasure craft that slowly cruised past, and then circled around for ...

Travel writer Heidi Sarna spent several days aboard the cruise industry's newest sail-powered vessel, Star Clipper's Royal Clipper. Her report follows: fter a week on the new, 228-passenger Royal ...