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    Comet was an 1851 California clipper built by William H. Webb which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade. This extreme clipper was very fast...
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  • Wuling Air ev. Comet (1813 steamboat) Comet (clipper), an 1851 California clipper which sailed in the Australia trade and the tea trade Comet (steamboat)...
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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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  • carrying. Comet was an iron paddle boat that Lairds built in 1839 for the British East India Company's marine service. Comet (clipper) was a clipper ship launched...
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    The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner (or Strato-Clipper in Pan American service, or C-75 in USAAF service) is an American stressed-skin four-engine low-wing...
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    bollard which had come loose from the Star Clipper at St. Katherine's Pier. On 4 October 2011 at 7pm, the Moon Clipper hit the Tower Millennium Pier when it...
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    Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
    identified by its blue globe logo ("The Blue Meatball"), the use of the word "Clipper" in its aircraft names and call signs, and the white uniform caps of its...
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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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    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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  • the fastest and best known privateers of the War of 1812, such as Rossie, Comet, Patapsco, Chasseur, and Lynx. Thomas Kemp moved to Baltimore in 1803 from...
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  • on a ninety-day run to San Francisco made 374 miles in one day. The Comet (clipper), on an eighty-day voyage from San Francisco to New York averaged 210...
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  • Warriors in 6 games. Zerucha, Tony (2 March 2023). "Comets swept by Falcons, staff canned". Beausejour Clipper Weekly. p. 14. Retrieved 8 August 2024. Dueck...
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    A Baltimore clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States, especially at the port of Baltimore,...
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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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    Rosetta performed a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). During its journey to the comet, the spacecraft performed flybys of Earth...
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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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    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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    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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    The period of clipper ships lasted from the early 1840s to the early 1890s, and over time features such as the hull evolved from wooden to composite....
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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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    land on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, ten years and eight months after departing Earth. On 12 November 2014, Philae touched down on the comet, but it...
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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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    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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    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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    Comet, an American schooner, was built in 1810 at Baltimore, Maryland. She was owned by "a group of wealthy Baltimore investors." Under Captain Thomas...
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    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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    Cessna Aircraft Company. Production ceased in 1986. The original Cessna 303 Clipper was first flown on February 14, 1978; it was a low-wing four-seat Lycoming-powered...
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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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  • list of some ships launched in 1851. Bruzelius, Lars (23 April 1999). "Clipper Ships: "Ino" (1851)". Ino. he Maritime History Virtual Archives. Retrieved...
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    transoceanic routes, expanding on the precedent set by their Boeing 314 Clipper with Pan American World Airways. Despite a recession in late 1945, Allen...
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