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Clipper ships were almost entirely products of American and British shipyards, with the exception of the Dutch built ‘Telenak’ (1859). While the majority of the clipper ships sailed under British and American flag, more then a hundred clippers were built in the Netherlands.

No extreme-clippers were built in the Netherlands, only medium-clippers. At an exhibition in Amsterdam in 1852 the Dutch lieutenant-commander M.H. Jansen showed a model of a medium-clipper which he became of the shipbuilders Perrine, Patterson & Stack (New York).

A schooner is a type of sailing ship characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. Schooners were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century, and further developed in North America from the time of the American Revolution.

The schooner sail-plan has two or more masts with the forward mast being shorter or the same height as the rear masts. Most of these schooners are gaff rigged.

In modern military terminology, a frigate is a warship intended to protect other warships and merchant marine ships and as anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups, and merchant convoys.

However, since these modern frigates have no sail … Well, boats with engines just don't cut it, so let's talk about something with a sail, now shall we?

A frigate was a medium size sailing warship with one gun deck, plus guns on the spar deck. It was faster than the larger ship of the line and larger than a sloop-of-war.