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the fastest sailing ship ever built, designed purely to outrun everyone for tea and gold.
speed obsessionclipped days off voyages, hence the name
tea racesships raced from China for premium cargo prices
cutty sarklast surviving clipper, dry-docked in Greenwich
killed faststeamships and Suez Canal ended their reign
opium runnermany smuggled drugs into 19th-century China