Baltimore clippers

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Fast, powerful seagoing watercraft, usually schooner- or brig-rigged, with fine entrance, long run, moderate to pronounced drag, and strong deadrise; built in the first half of the 19th century and often involved in illegal trades, either as smugglers or slavers, or as revenue vessels trying to catch smugglers.
Baltimore clippers
Accepted term: 30-Sep-2024