Ambassador (clipper)
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'Ambassador' was a British Tea Clipper
Clipper
A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area...

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She was a composite
Composite ship
The technique of composite ship construction emerged in the mid-19th century as the final stage in the evolution of fast commercial sailing ships....

 clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was Lund's first tea clipper.

Her fastest crossing between China and England was 108 days, in 1872. Though considered a fast ship, Ambassador was said to be "very cranky and overmasted" (Lubbock, The China Clippers, page 302). Her first passage to the UK from Foochow came during the Tea Race of 1870 under Captain Duggan and took 115 days, a mediocre performance; that same year the fastest tea passage, also from Foochow, was made by the clipper Lahloo in just 98 days.

Ambassador is one of the last four surviving composite ships.

Her beached skeleton, in Estancia San Gregorio, Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

, was declared a historical monument in 1973.

(Probable location: 52.5674868°N 70.0688106°W)
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