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* Clipper: A very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts, a square rig, a long, low hull, and a sharply raked stem.
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While the 1957 Packard Clipper was less Packard, it was a very good Studebaker.
dBase was very limited in its ability to process memo fields, but some other xBase languages such as Clipper treat memo fields as strings just like character fields for all purposes except permanent storage.
Clipper was originally created in 1985 as a compiler for dBASE III, a very popular database language at the time.
This route made the Pan Am Clipper the fastest mode of transatlantic travel at the time — and very appealing to those who wanted to escape from Britain before the start of the war.
Clip compiler is a multi-platform ( Linux and Windows ( Cygwin )) Clipper programming language compiler with many additional features and libraries ( for gtk, fivewin, netto, MySQL, ODBC, cti, tcp, gzip, Interbase, Oracle, Postgres ), which is quite fast, has support for Hyper-Six and FoxPro RDD's, and can compile existing Clipper source code with very minor changes.
Under Linux and Windows Mobile, Clipper source code can be compiled with Harbour with very little adaptation.
OOP syntax in Harbour is very similar to that of earlier Clipper class libraries so it should be possible to maintain legacy Clipper code with minimal changes.
Clipper and fast
Average trajectory of a ClipperAn Alberta clipper ( also known as a Canadian Clipper ) is a fast moving low pressure area which generally affects the central provinces of Canada and parts of the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Baltimore Clipper is the colloquial name for fast sailing ships built on the south-eastern seaboard of the United States of America, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland.
Clipper and sailing
Clipper ship sailing card for the " Free Trade ", printed by Nesbitt & Co., NY, early 1860s
The Clipper Route, taken by ships sailing from Europe to Australia in order to take advantage of the Roaring Forties
Kiernan is a passionate yachtsman, sailing competitively for more than 40 years and representing Australia at the Admiral's, Southern Cross, Dunhill, Clipper, Kenwood and Trans Pacific Cup competitions.
* Dream, a cruise ship built in 1970, currently sailing as the Clipper Pacific
Condor Ferries have two sailings a day to the Channel Islands with a morning sailing to the Islands with the passenger and freight ferry Commodore Clipper and an evening sailing to the islands with the freight-only ferry Commodore Goodwill.
It is perhaps his greatest achievement to have introduced so many people to competitive sailing via their involvement in Clipper Ventures.
Clipper and ship
" Clipper Ship Lightning ( clipper ) | Lightning " – an American clipper ship of the 1850s
Clipper ship Southern Cross leaving Boston Harbor, 1851, by Fitz Hugh Lane
Clipper ship Audubon
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On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, which produced the largest storm surge ever recorded in the area, reaching nearly and pushing many shrimp boats and the cargo ship M / V Caribbean Clipper onto shore.
On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, with a local storm surge of nearly and higher waves that engulfed Bayou La Batre and pushed over 23 shrimp boats and the cargo ship M / V Caribbean Clipper onto shore.
* Picture of ship M / V Caribbean Clipper: aground with crane in Bayou La Batre.
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Clipper ship N. B.
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Clipper ship Sweepstakes, built by Westervelt & Sons in 1853
John Gilpin Clipper | clipper ship card He was said to be a wealthy draper from Cheapside in London, who owned land at Olney in Buckinghamshire, near where Cowper lived.
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File: Memnonclipper. jpg | Clipper ship Memnon
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Clipper and 19th
After being nursed back to health from a suspected lung abscess by his wife, Chichester became inspired while writing his book Along the Clipper Way, which charts the voyage taken by 19th century wool clippers returning from Australia.
A modern replica of an early 19th century Baltimore Clipper was the ill-fated Pride of Baltimore and her replacement Pride of Baltimore II.
Clipper and century
Identified by its blue globe logo, the use of the word " Clipper " in aircraft names and call signs, and the white pilot uniform caps, the airline was a cultural icon of the 20th century.
One particularly famous Baltimore Clipper, and one of the last of the type in commercial service, was the schooner Vigilant that traded around the Danish Caribbean islands for over a century before sinking in a hurricane on September 12, 1928.
Clipper and had
By the time dBASE for Windows eventually shipped, the developer community had moved on to other products such as Clipper or FoxBase and dBASE never regained significant share of Ashton-Tate's former market.
Noonan had recently left Pan Am, where he established most of the company's China Clipper seaplane routes across the Pacific.
This was to some confusing and went against what James Nance had been attempting for several years to accomplish, the divorce of the Clipper line from Packard.
During this time many customers took the opportunity to try out the legions of dBASE clones that had appeared recently, notably FoxBase and Clipper.
The services along the line, as inherited from Penn Central, once had their own names, like the Yankee Clipper and the Federal ; typically a name applied to at most one train and its " twin " in the opposite direction.
The opening song Day of the Clipper came from the group Schooner Fare, whom Makem & Clancy had recently seen in concert.
Viewers were told that Clipper had joined the military.
Alexander soon after married another actress, Anne Nagel, with whom he had appeared in the films China Clipper and Here Comes Carter ( both 1936 ).
Because the Sirius had not undergone a refit, it could not be formally commissioned as the USTS Texas Clipper nor could it be used for summer training cruises.
After Lockwood had been deer and quail hunting at the club for several years as Duncan's guest, Lockwood learned of an amazing coincidence: Lockwood's predecessor as submarine fleet commander, Robert Henry English, had died on the same hunting club property in the crash of the Philippine Clipper flying boat.
For model year 1956, when the Clipper had at last become a stand-alone make, the vehicles received new rear sheet metal and tail-light treatments.
By the time it returned, management was too busy to consider that they had in the Clipper the key to regaining Packard's luxury image.
Motor Trend's Tom McCahill, who had raved about the Packard Clipper, called the 1948 Packard " a goat.
The state of the world being beyond Packard's control, Clipper production came to a halt February 9, 1942, just as it was hitting its stride — just as Clipper styling had spread through the entire Packard model lineup.
Arguably its conservative design philosophy had stood Packard well in the years leading up to the Clipper.
Kaiser-Frazer stylist Bob Robillard admitted that Darrin had held onto his claim as originator of the Clipper almost from the start.
The Clipper had at least as many pioneering features in an even more integrated package.
By the 1942 model year, Clipper styling had permeated every Packard in the line, except where special tooling existed — convertibles, taxis, wagons and commercial cars.
The long-wheelbase ( 147-inch ) Clipper seven-passenger sedan and limousine were competitive with Cadillac and the low-volume Chrysler Crown Imperial ( Lincoln had no long models ) in the first two postwar years.
Worse still, the 1948 facelift lost the design continuum the Clipper had so brilliantly offered.
If the release of the Clipper had been saved until after the war, and been in a style closer to that Dutch Darrin proposed in 1940, Packard would have been in a position of styling leadership.
Nance originally had hoped to introduce the new " Clipper " as a stand-alone marque, targeting the mid range price field which he felt was dragging the Packard image down.
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