Herald of the Morning was one of the few clipper ships with a passage to San Francisco in less than 100 days. Herald of the Morning was designed by Samuel...
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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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Herald of the Morning was a three-masted square-rigged sailing ship, built in 1853 or 1854 at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, expressly for the Australia...
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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 of 22...
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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 held...
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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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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, Maryland...
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La Belle Des Oceans (redirect from Clipper Odyssey)
Silver Discoverer". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 May 2014. Prior, Neale (28 April 2014). "Discover the Kimberley coast". The West Australian. Retrieved...
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publisher of Hobart's "pungent" Clipper newspaper, for defamation of character, in respect of an article alleging impropriety in awarding a contract for the Strahan...
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extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. Designed for the China tea trade...
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Pan Am Flight 103 (redirect from Clipper Maid of the Seas)
in London and another in New York City. The transatlantic leg of the route was operated by Clipper Maid of the Seas, a Boeing 747 registered N739PA. Shortly...
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on behalf of A. A. Low and Bro., who salvaged and rebuilt it as a three-deck vessel with reduced masts. Still the largest clipper ship in the world at...
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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. At...
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one of the early true clipper ships, designed to meet the increasing demand for faster cargo transportation between the United States and China in the early...
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Sea Witch was an American clipper ship designed by naval architect John W. Griffiths for the China trading firm of Howland & Aspinwall. She was launched...
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The Newcastle was a clipper ship of the Green Blackwell line that operated on routes from England to India and Australia in the late 19th century. Built...
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McKay was an extreme clipper designed by Donald McKay, his last. Built for James Baines & Co., she sailed on the Black Ball Line of Liverpool from 1855...
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Red Jacket was a clipper ship, one of the largest and fastest ever built. She was also the first ship of the White Star Line company. She was named after...
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the paper reported that it was being sold to Lee Enterprises. The Buffalo News was founded as a Sunday paper with the name The Buffalo Sunday Morning...
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"The clipper ship Torrens". Sunderland Echo. 16 April 2008. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. Trove...
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Marco Polo (1851 ship) (category Tall ships of the United Kingdom)
three-masted wooden clipper ship, launched in 1851 at Saint John, New Brunswick. She was named after Venetian traveler Marco Polo. The ship carried emigrants...
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Gravina was an 818-register ton clipper ship built in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1853. A rare example of a clipper built in the United States for foreign owners...
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Cutty Sark (category Grade I listed buildings in the Royal Borough of Greenwich)
is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers...
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Pan Am Flight 121 (redirect from Clipper Eclipse)
Istanbul. On the evening of June 18, 1947, the Lockheed L-049 Constellation serving the flight, known as the Clipper Eclipse (previously Clipper Dublin),...
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Western Nebraska Observer – Kimball Laurel Advocate – Laurel Lexington Clipper-Herald – Lexington Nebraska Farmer – Lincoln Sherman County Times – Loup City...
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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 Race of 1866...
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Donald McKay (category Emigrants from pre-Confederation Nova Scotia to the United States)
Courier, early clipper trading ship, 380 tons OM was the first ship fully designed and built by Donald McKay himself, as a partner in the firm of Currier &...
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Transpacific flight (category History of the Pacific Ocean)
became the undisputed national leader of transpacific flights. For the next year, Pan American planned for passenger flights, the China Clipper and its...
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payment. The price of £17 per ton was extremely competitive and given the total lack of experience in building a composite clipper ship of anything close...
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Stad Amsterdam (category Tall ships of the Netherlands)
The Stad Amsterdam (City of Amsterdam) is a three-masted clipper that was built in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2000 at the Damen Shipyard. The ship...
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