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| Career
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Great Britain |
| Name: |
Ambassador |
| Owner: |
W. Lund & Co |
| Builder: |
William Walker, Lavender Dry Dock, London |
| Launched: |
1869 |
| Out of service: |
1896 |
| General characteristics
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| Class and type: |
Composite clipper |
| Tons burthen: |
714 |
| Length: |
53,54 m |
| Beam: |
9,54 m |
| Draught: |
5,82 m |
'Ambassador' was a British Tea Clipper.
She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton.
Her fastest crossing between China and England was 108 days, in 1872.
She is one of the last three surviving composite clippers. Her beached skeleton, in Estancia San Gregorio, Chile, was declared a historical mounument in 1973.[1][2]
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