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2. List of clipper ships - Wikipedia

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   She ended up not being built as a reproduction, and sails as a passenger clipper ship. [44] Shabab Oman II: 2013 Romania : Active 285 ft (87 m) Shabab Oman II was built in Romania for the Royal Navy of Oman as a training vessel. She is designed as a clipper ship with a sailing speed of 17 knots. [45] [46]

3. Clipper Group - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Clipper - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Grinnell, Minturn & Co - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Sovereign of the Seas (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   Built by Donald McKay of East Boston, Massachusetts, Sovereign of the Seas was the first ship to travel more than 400 nautical miles (740 kilometres) in 24 hours. [3] On the second leg of her maiden voyage, she made a record passage from Honolulu , Hawaii, to New York City in 82 days.

7. Ann McKim (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   Ann McKim was one of the ships that had answered the demand in the early years and sailed between New York and China in 1840–1842, until newer and faster cargo-carriers, such as the nearly 600-ton clipper Houqua, the 598-ton China packet Helena, Witch of the Wave, and Rainbow (with the last two built expressly to outperform Ann McKim [3 ...

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9. Carrier Pigeon (ship) - Wikipedia

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   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 $1,978,000 in 2023). ). 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 Califor