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Star Clipper is a four masted barquentine built as a cruise ship, and operated by Star Clippers Ltd of Sweden. She is the first clipper ship in this class since 1912. She is the first clipper ship in this class since 1912.
MS Star Clipper was a Norwegian-owned bulk carrier built by Kockums in Malmö, Sweden in 1968. In 1981 she was sold and her name changed to Star Lanao . She was scrapped in India in 1986.
The Lockheed Star Clipper was a proposed Earth-to-orbit spaceplane based on a large lifting body spacecraft and a wrap-around drop tank.Originally proposed during a United States Air Force program in 1966, the basic Star Clipper concept lived on during the early years of the NASA Space Shuttle program, and as that project evolved, in a variety of new versions like the LS-200.
Royal Clipper is a steel-hulled five-masted fully rigged tall ship used as a cruise ship. She was redesigned by Robert McFarlane of McFarlane ShipDesign, for Star Clippers Ltd. of Sweden , the same designer behind the cruise company's first two vessels.
A second Shooting Star was built by Reed, Wade, and Co. in 1859. It was a 947-ton medium clipper. This ship was captured and burned by Chickamauga, a Confederate privateer, on Oct. 31, 1864, when it was on a voyage from New York to Panama. [2] An extreme clipper built in 1851, the Ino, was renamed Shooting Star after its sale in 1867. It was ...
Four-masted barquentine, Star Flyer, off Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean. Star Flyer is a four masted barquentine built as a cruise ship, and operated by Star Clippers Ltd of Sweden. A luxury vessel, Star Flyer is a sister ship to Star Clipper. Both sailed under the Luxembourg flag until 2010, and now sail under the Maltese flag.
Celestial Empire was a long-lived medium clipper ship built in 1852 for the San Francisco trade. She met with a variety of mishaps characteristic for ships of her era. A second ship by this name set a legal precedent regarding damage done by sailing ships coming in to dock.
The Michigan Star Clipper Dinner Train was a dinner train that operated in Michigan for 24 years; first out of Paw Paw, for approximately two years, then from Walled Lake, with trips heading from West Bloomfield to Wixom, where it connected to the CSX mainline and then back to West Bloomfield, MI. On December 31, 2008, the operators of the ...