Clipper Ship Esther Roy 1898 Tile

Esther Roy of Maitland H McDougall Master off Holyhead 12 Nov 1898 The last and largest clipper ship project undertaken by the firm Frieze and Roy was a shipping, shipbuilding and trading firm located in Maitland, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Founded in 1836 was Esther Roy, a ship of 1,533 tons, which was launched in 1877. She was later sold to an Italian company in 1895. Clipper ships were mid-19th century merchant sailing vessels designed for speed. They were narrow for their length, small by later 19th-century standards, and could carry limited bulk freight. They had a large total sail area and could travel at speeds of up to 30 kilometres an hour, far faster than the average merchant ship.