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chained_bear commented on the word clipper schooner
"In the 1870s, as schooners became shallower and carried more sails, making them even faster and more beautiful, but much more dangerous, Gloucester Mass. losses became horrendous. These shallow, loftily rigged "clipper schooners" did not stand up well in gale winds. In 1871, twenty schooners and 140 men were lost. In 1873, thirty-two vessels and 174 men were lost, 128 of them in a single gale. An easterly gale on teh banks in 1879 sunk twenty-nine vessels with a loss of 249 men."
—Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (New York: Penguin, 1997), 116
July 16, 2009