When was the most amount of commercial trade carried by sail powered ships?
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Some contributors of the forum will ask you about previous research, but anyway I will answer.
The most important sail merchant fleet during the history, and throughout the world, in activity was the clipper fleet of the 19th century. This "clipper fleet" actually consisted in a lot more of other types of boats, especially of military type, but the clipper were the figurehead of this period.
Please note that this answer considers long-range travelling. For short range and very short range, there might be very numerous small sailboats (even more including fishing boats) that totalized a large amount of commercial trade. The answer also does not take into account the trade compared to population size.
The maritime traffic consisted mainly in the following commercial roads:
- Cotton imported from India to United Kingdom
- Asia to Europe and return commercial trade, that saw heavy involvement of the clippers to transport tea (from China) faster and faster
- African trade: this was more and more important as long as colonial empires extended
- South American trade and passenger transportation
Note that this apogee ended with the use of steam-powered boats.
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