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A clipper almost similar in size to The North American, with which she is often misidentified due to the name(see Lloyd’s Register of American Shipping 1859 register 1567 and the same Register for the year 1864), she was designed by Donald McKay in the year 1851 and after service in the USA was sold to South America in 1865 and not listed by ...
The ship set a record for the New York-to-San Francisco run around Cape Horn in 1851 (despite losing a portion of a mast en route), and improved on its own mark in 1853, setting a record for ships under sail that lasted for over 100 years. The Flying Cloud, like many of the line's ships, had individual ownership. Moses H. Grinnell and Robert ...
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 $2,041,000 in 2024). She was wrecked on her maiden voyage off the north coast of what was then Santa Cruz County (and is now San Mateo County ) in the state of California.
Ocean Chief was a clipper ship used in a regular packet service and as a passenger ship for bounty emigrants to Australia between June 1854 and December 1861 at the time of the Australian gold rushes.
Clipper ship sailing card for the Free Trade, printed by Nesbitt & Co., New York, early 1860s. Departures of clipper ships, mostly from New York and Boston to San Francisco, were advertised by clipper-ship sailing cards. These cards, slightly larger than today's postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.
MV Ocean Adventurer [2] is an ice-capable expedition cruise ship operating commercial voyages to both polar regions, with Quark Expeditions of Seattle, Washington, United States. The vessel was previously been registered as Clipper Adventurer, and was renamed as Sea Adventurer on 1 October 2012. She is the sister ship to Lyubov Orlova.
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Clipper Group is an international shipping company, founded in 1991 by Torben Gülnar Jensen, after a split of Armada Shipping A/S, which was founded in 1972 together with Jørgen Dannesboe. Primary focus is on bulk, especially within the handysize and supramax segments, but the company also has investments within e.g. ro-ro ( Seatruck Ferries ...