The Emma Maersk, a monster among cargo ships at 11,000 TEU. During the Panamax era, 3,000 - 5,000 TEU was more common. Max weight for a 20 foot container is 14 tons. This gives the Emma a capacity of 154,000 tons, or 38.5x the capacity of the Red Jacket.
The largest cargo ships are the Maersk's Triple E class class, such as the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, with a capacity of 18,270 TEU, or nearly 64x the Red Jacket.
The more common Panamax hull would be 10-17.5 clipper cargoes.
I'm not sufficiently versed in shipbuilding research to know what size ships are being considered for sail (or sail-hybrid) propulsion, but it seems likely that designs larger than the best clipper technologies of 1853 might be possible some 160+ years later.
Via Wikipedia, the maximum gross tonnage I can find for a clipper is 4,000 tons for the Red Jacket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Jacket_(clipper)
The Emma Maersk, a monster among cargo ships at 11,000 TEU. During the Panamax era, 3,000 - 5,000 TEU was more common. Max weight for a 20 foot container is 14 tons. This gives the Emma a capacity of 154,000 tons, or 38.5x the capacity of the Red Jacket.
The largest cargo ships are the Maersk's Triple E class class, such as the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, with a capacity of 18,270 TEU, or nearly 64x the Red Jacket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A6rsk_Mc-Kinney_M%C3%B8ll...
The more common Panamax hull would be 10-17.5 clipper cargoes.
I'm not sufficiently versed in shipbuilding research to know what size ships are being considered for sail (or sail-hybrid) propulsion, but it seems likely that designs larger than the best clipper technologies of 1853 might be possible some 160+ years later.
The Star Clipper looks to be a 7,400 ton vessel, delivered in 2010: http://www.marinetalk.com/articles-marine-companies/art/Worl...
Other large sailing ships of note:
The STS Sedov, laid down in 1920, with a cargo capacity of 5,350 tons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS_Sedov
The Royal Clipper, 5000 GT, completed in 2000, operating as a cruise ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Clipper
The Preußen, ~5000 GT, completed in 1902. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preu%C3%9Fen_(ship)
The Great Eastern, a steam sailing ship, 18,915 GT, launched 1858. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Great_Eastern GT isn't directly translatable to cargo capacity, but that's nearly 1/8th the size of the Emma. It wasn't surpassed until the RMS Celtic in 1901 at 20,904 GT, a steam liner (no sails). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Celtic
For comparison, RMS Titanic was 46,328 GRT.