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No hope for clipper's homecoming

Hopes that a ship built on the River Wear could return to the north-east of England after almost 140 years have finally been scuppered. The City of Adelaide was built in 1864 by a Sunderland shipyard. It is the oldest surviving clipper in the world - the only other is the Cutty Sark.

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