Other Preserved Clyde-built Tall Ships
Four other Clyde-built tall ships are still afloat:
- Balclutha, a steel-hulled full rigged ship, built in 1886 (San Francisco)
- Moshulu, a steel-hulled four-masted barque, built in 1904 (Philadelphia)
- Falls of Clyde, an iron-hulled four-masted full-rigged ship and the last one of her kind, built in 1878 (Hawaii)
- Pommern, a steel-hulled four-masted bald-headed barque, built in 1903 (Åland Islands)
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“Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
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On Christmas Day in the morning.”
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