Leander (clipper)
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Leander was a composite built clipper ship, measuring 215.5ft x 35.2ft x 20.7ft, 848 tons net. She was designed by Bernard Waymouth, and built in 1867 by J G Lawrie of Glasgow for Joseph Somes.
Clipper ships, designers & builders | |
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British-built clippers | |
Ariel | Blackadder |Challenger | Cutty Sark | Flying Cloud | Hallowe'en | Lammermuir | Leander | Lothair | Norman Court | Sir Lancelot | Tayleur | Thermopylae | Taitsing | |
American-built clippers | |
Champion of the Seas | Flying Cloud | Great Republic | James Baines | Lightning | |
British designers and builders | |
Hercules Linton | William Lithgow | John Scott Russell | Scott & Linton | |
American designers and builders | |
Donald McKay | Nathaniel Palmer | William Henry Webb |