skip to main | skip to sidebar When the age of discovery developed into the modern age of commerce, with the shipping fleets of the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and British empires ensuring a global trade of exotic spices, the demands of an industrialised 19th century Europe required increasing tonnage, and the ships grew significantly in size, sail area, and in consequence, draught. With the largest trading ports inside the English Channel, scattered with rocks and extreme currents, or inside the shallow sounds, harbours and bays on the East coast of a fledgling American nation, fast pilot boats were developed specifically for guiding the increasingly large clippers to land and to port, and the advent of insurance companies made sure this became a generalised obligation.
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