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    Pride of Baltimore (private commission)

    Pride of Baltimore (private commission)

    The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century “Baltimore clipper” topsail schooner. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small warship in the War of 1812 (1812–1815) against British merchant shipping and the world-wide British Royal Navy. After the end of the war, Baltimore Clippers did not have sufficient cargo capacity for normal merchant trade, so some were used in the illegal opium trade into China and vessels of the same type were used in the transatlantic slave trade from Africa.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_of_Baltimore

    Note rigging and seams on the sails. Burned onto an old door panel.