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    Snow Squall was an extreme wooden American clipper ship built in Maine for the China trade. A large part of her bow was preserved and is the sole remaining...
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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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    (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, Spring...
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    active periods. Ground blizzard Panhandle hook Polar vortex Snow squall Wind chill "Alberta clipper". Glossary of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society...
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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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    "The Great Conflagration. Three Clipper-Ships Destroyed. Total Loss of the Great Republic. Burning of the White Squall, and Joseph Walker. Nine Buidings...
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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 squall may develop embedded cumulonimbus clouds resulting in lightning and thunder which is dubbed thundersnow. A warm front can produce snow for...
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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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    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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  • 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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    Houqua was an early clipper ship with an innovative hull design, built for A.A. Low & Brother in 1844. She sailed in the China trade. Houqua was named...
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    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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    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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    Nor'easter (redirect from Snow hurricane)
    extratropical storms, although nor'easters are usually accompanied by heavy rain or snow, and can cause severe coastal flooding, coastal erosion, hurricane-force...
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    Home, circa 1960, sold at Christie's for $116,550 in 2013 and White SquallClipper Ship "Ann Mckim", sold for $68,500 to a private collector from Virginia...
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    a foot of snow in Pennsylvania, ABC News, February 17, 2024 Snow squalls pummel Northeast in wake of winter storm that left a foot of snow in Pennsylvania...
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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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    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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    Mary Robinson was an 1854 medium clipper in the San Francisco, India, and the guano trades. She was known for having spent an entire month attempting...
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    v t e Clipper ships Baltimore Clipper Extreme clipper Medium clipper List of clippers List of people who sailed on clipper ships Clipper route 1840s Anglona...
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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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    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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    Taeping (redirect from Taeping (clipper))
    The Taeping was a tea clipper built in 1863 by Robert Steele & Company of Greenock and owned by Captain Alexander Rodger of Cellardyke, Fife. Over her...
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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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    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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    Champion of the Seas was the second largest clipper ship destined for the Liverpool, England - Melbourne, Australia passenger service. Champion was ordered...
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    SS Milwaukee Clipper, also known as SS Clipper , and formerly as SS Juniata, is a retired passenger ship and automobile ferry that sailed under two configurations...
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    that it is sometimes used to judge wind speed at sea. spring sprite squall squall line St. Elmo's fire A weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is...
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