[image] [image] A Look at McLean's Clipper Ships -- the Fastest Cargo Ships in the World The recent activation by TRANSCOM of 28 cargo ships, makes it a good time to take a look back at eight iconic shps from the 1970s still in service today. When I was a young student of naval architect…

The price of fuel wasn’t the only thing that doomed the SL-7’s. They were built for 35 ft containers as the world moved to 40 footers as the norm.

ROFL – I was thinking of a different McLean – who was actually, of course, McKay.

Speed reading the op, my mind went to the same place. McKay’s beautiful clipper ships that sailed “when ships were made of wood and the men who sailed them were made of iron” as the old saying goes. While browsing through renderings of the Flying Cloud, I ran across this book review and ordered it. …

The fast fuel hog containership is just one of those ideas people can’t leave alone, isn’t it. I wonder what the next iteration will be.

[image] whizbang: I wonder what the next iteration will be. 600 meter ships? Trained dolphins? I like enormous airships myself, though submarines are also nice. :slight_smile:

Back to Laissez’ Flying “P’s”? Preussen, Pamir, Potosi.

[image] whizbang: I wonder what the next iteration will be. [image] When the icecaps give up the ghost, maybe the Russians can dust off this gem and scale it up a few hundred times.

Interstingly, the largest of his fleet had the same dimensions of a number of Wagenborg general cargo ships (the D and K class Wagenborg’s if I remember correctly); 420ft L, 52ft B, 36 ft moulded depth, and also 8,000 dwt. Those windjammers could average 10kts from Land’s End to Valpariso…which inc…

A Look at McLean’s Clipper Ships — the Fastest Cargo Ships in the World

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Cappy_208 October 1, 2019, 9:53am 20

Well… I can’t find the artists conception. But some company (McAllister IIRC) planned a15 knot ATB version for east coast shuttle service. Novel idea.

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A Look at McLean’s Clipper Ships — the Fastest Cargo Ships in the World

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