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The Memnon was the first clipper ship to arrive in San Francisco after the Gold Rush, and the only clipper to arrive in San Francisco before 1850. Built in 1848, she made record passages to San Francisco and to China, and sailed in the first clipper race around Cape Horn.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Memnon: mythical Ethiopian king, son of Tithonus and Eos · British race horse · Egyptian hegumen · 2006 novel by Scott Oden