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Falls of Clyde Clipper Ship
Honolulu Harbor, Hawaii
The Falls of Clyde clipper ship is docked next to
the Hawaii Maritime Center Museum in Honolulu Harbor
on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
Copyright ©
Kathleen Walling Fry
The Falls of Clyde was built in 1878 in Port Glasgow, Scotland
and it was named after a waterfall on the river Clyde in that
country. it is an iron hulled, four masted ship that
is 266 feet long with a 40 foot beam. It was restored in 1970
and it is now docked at Pier 7 in Honolulu Harbor, next
to the Hawaii Maritime Center Museum.
Admission to the Hawaii Maritime Center covers
a visit to the Falls of Clyde, the only surviving
fully-rigged, four-masted sailing ship left in the
world. The ship was built in 1878 in Port Glasgow,
Scotland, and she spent her first years sailing to
ports in south-central Asia. Her Hawaiian career
began in 1899, 20 years after her maiden voyage.
She became the first four-masted ship to fly the
Hawaiian flag. After a long, vigorous career in
the Pacific, the Falls of Clyde came home to
Hawaii in 1963. In 1973, the vessel was entered
into the National Register of Historic Places
Flew the Hawaiian flag from 1898 to 1920
The Falls of Clyde clipper ship was designated
a National Historic Landmark on April 11, 1989.
See also:
Hawaii Maritime Center Museum
Aloha Tower
Aloha Tower Marketplace
Honolulu Waterfront Tour
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Maritime Past Survives in Falls of Clyde
Chronological History of the Falls of Clyde
Aloha Hawaii on the Falls of Clyde
Hawaii Web on the Falls of Clyde
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