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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • clipper was a clipper designed to sacrifice cargo capacity for speed. They had a bow lengthened above the water, a drawing out and sharpening of the forward...
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