page_title: Thermopylae (clipper)
section_title: Race with Cutty Sark
hierarchical_section_title: Thermopylae (clipper) / Race with Cutty Sark
caption_attribution_description: English: Old photos of the Klipper Thermopylae (four Photos in one).
context_page_description: Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London.
context_section_description: In 1872, Thermopylae raced the clipper Cutty Sark from Shanghai back to London. Thermopylae won by seven days after Cutty Sark lost her rudder.  From 1882 onward, Thermopylae took part in the Australian wool trade; however, on this route Cutty Sark proved faster.
caption: Thermopylae 1882-1907
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