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The Western Ocean Yachts were a class of three-masted schooners built in Porthmadog from 1890 to 1913. The first built was the Blodwen and the last the Gestiana. Thirty-three were built from 1891 to 1913 by different builders in and around Porthmadog but they were not uniform in size or some details. This was the last great flowering of wooden deep-sea commercial sailing ship construction in the UK. For the list of their names, see Portmadoc Maritime. They were the ultimate development of the small wooden merchant sailing ship in Britain. Porthmadog shipbuilders never built steel-hulled ships.

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