Carrier Dove was an 1855 medium clipper. She was one of two well-known clippers launched in Baltimore that year, the other being Mary Whitridge. Carrier...
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Carrier Dove was the name of several ships: Carrier Dove (clipper), an 1855 California clipper ship Carrier Dove, an 1854 schooner that sunk in Lake Ontario...
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A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper...
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The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the...
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fastest run in 115 days. She was accompanied by Carrier Dove off Cape Horn on this trip, and beat Carrier Dove to San Francisco by 18 days. On her maiden run...
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The clipper route was derived from the Brouwer Route and was sailed by clipper ships between Europe and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. The route...
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C. (1986). American clipper ships, 1833-1858. New York: Dover. ISBN 0-486-25116-0. "HAER ME,3-PORTS,2- (sheet 1 of 10) - Clipper Ship SNOW SQUALL Bow...
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Carrier Pigeon was an American clipper ship that was launched in the fall of 1852 from Bath, Maine. Her value was estimated at US$54,000 (equivalent to...
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and the Liberty Clipper and the privateer Lynx. Gardiner 1999 Chapelle, Howard Irving (1988). The Baltimore Clipper. New York: Dover Publications....
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Hallowe’en was a 920-ton iron clipper ship. She was built in 1870 by Maudslay, Son & Field at Greenwich, England, for Jock Willis & Sons (commissioned...
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Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship...
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Ariel was a clipper ship famous for making fast voyages between China and England in the late 1860s. She is most famous for almost winning The Great Tea...
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Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. Designed...
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Lightning was a clipper ship, one of the last really large clippers to be built in the United States. She was built by Donald McKay for James Baines of...
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Leander was a composite built clipper ship. She was designed by Bernard Waymouth, and built in 1867 by J G Lawrie of Glasgow for Joseph Somes. She had...
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Champion of the Seas (redirect from Champion of the Seas (clipper))
Clipper Ships 1833–1858. Vol. 1: Adelaide–Lotus. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0486251152. La Grange, Helen; La Grange, Jacques (1936). Clipper Ships...
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Taitsing was a famous British tea clipper. Taitsing was a full-rigged, composite-built clipper ship, measuring 192 feet (59 meters) in length, with a beam...
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a British clipper built by William Walker and launched in Rotherhithe, London, on 2 July 1870. After many years of service as a tea clipper, she was operated...
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Norman Court (redirect from Norman Court (clipper))
Norman Court was a composite built clipper ship, designed by William Rennie, measuring 197.4 ft x 33 ft x 20 ft, of 833.87 tons net. The ship was built...
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Sir Lancelot was a clipper ship which sailed in the China trade and the India-Mauritius trade. She was built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Company, Greenock...
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Octavius T.; Matthews, Frederick C. (1986). American clipper ships, 1833-1858. New York: Dover. ISBN 0486251160. MacGregor, David R. (1993). British...
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includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1855. "Another Clipper Ship for the "Black Ball" Line". Liverpool Mercury. No. 2656. Liverpool...
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Ships. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0486288208. "Donald McKay Yard". www.bruzelius.info. Retrieved May 4, 2019. Arthur H. Clark (1910). The Clipper Ship...
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Blackadder was a clipper, a sister ship to Hallowe'en, built in 1870 by Maudslay, Sons & Field at Greenwich for Jock Willis & Sons. Blackadder was dismasted...
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Sovereign of the Seas, a clipper ship built in 1852, was a sailing vessel notable for setting the world record for the fastest sailing ship, with a speed...
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The China Clipper flight departure site is listed as California Historical Landmark number 968. It is the site from which Pan American World Airways (Pan...
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selected Scott & Linton to design and build a state of the art extreme clipper is not known. Linton certainly had many contacts made through his career...
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innovative early clipper ship which Capt. Nat helped design Paul Jones, ship which N.B. Palmer sailed on its maiden voyage N.B. Palmer (clipper), named after...
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architect and shipbuilder Donald McKay as a four-deck four-masted medium clipper barque, Great Republic—at 4,555 tons registry—was intended to be the most...
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Jacob Aaron Westervelt (section Clipper ships)
steamships ever built, among these the screw sloop USS Brooklyn and the clipper Sweepstakes, as well as many vessels for foreign governments and Royal...
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