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Taeping, a tea clipper built in 1863. 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, which originated in the late 18th century.
Queen of Clippers: 1853 United States (Boston, MA) 258 ft (79 m) She was built at East Boston by Robert E. Jackson, the builder of John Bertram and Winged Racer. [22] Red Jacket [23] 1853 United States (Rockland, ME) Wrecked in 1885 251 ft (77 m) Red Jacket was designed by Samuel Hartt Pook, and built by the George Taylor yards of Rockland ...
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. An early form of clipper , the name is most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines .
The Yankee Clipper (civil registration NC18603) was an American Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat, best known for on 20 May 1939 beginning the first scheduled airmail service between the United States and Europe. It crashed on 22 February 1943, while attempting to land on the River Tagus at Lisbon, in Portugal killing 24 and injuring others while ...
The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the range to cross the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy , wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber ...
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