clipper bow

The presence of iron rope offered a vital clue as to the ship’s identity, as was the schooner’s “sleek clipper bow.”

She had a clipper bow, and on her foredeck was mounted a three-inch cannon.

For a while it had a clipper bow and a fantail like a destroyer.

The $14 million Caronia will have the new Cunard look: single funnel, single mast, sharp clipper bow and a cruiser stern.

Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa to lonely U. S. inlets.