pickIn the first half of the nineteenth century, a small group of American merchants become active in the China opium/ tea trade as the authority of the East India company declined. These men and their families became the great merchants of the period, driving the development of the clipper ships with which could beat their rivals to market and used the money earned to develop the railways and steamships which formed the basis of American progress.
#TallShipCelebration I found photos of Barks and Schooners, but then remembered they called Joe the Yankee #Clipper 🤗
#TallShipCelebration #TSC2019 #Clipper
You might have been wondering about the tall ship I‘ve been using in the background. Well, it‘s a model ship of the Flying Cloud. The same as outlined in the tagged book. She‘s a clipper type of masted sailing vessel.
#tallshipcelebration @CrowCAH #clipper This prompt made me think of Willam in Mallrats and how he couldn‘t see his sailboat.
