tea clipper

— There was the Lightning whose record of thirteen days from Boston to Liverpool, many a steam freighter today cannot beat. There was the Flying Cloud, that sailed from New York around the Horn to Frisco in eighty-nine days. Famous clippers both of them, like the Hurricane, Stag Hound, and the Great Republic. But they are gone like the British tea clippers, the Titania, Spindrift, Caliph and Lothair, and the Lahloo which won the race from Foo Chow to London in 1870, in ninety-seven days. The Cutty Sark is perhaps the only old tea clipper still afloat.