Royal Clipper is a steel-hulled five masted fully rigged tall ship used as a cruise ship. She was designed by Zygmunt Choreń and built using an existing steel hull that was modified by the Gdańsk Shipyard and the Merwede shipyard completed the ship's interior in July 2000. The renovations included frescography murals by Rainer Maria Latzke completing the ships' Mediterranean interior. Her design was based on Preussen a famous German five-mast Flying P-Liner windjammer built in 1902.