" Clipper Ship Lightning ( clipper ) | Lightning " – an American clipper ship of the 1850s

Dreadnought, a Fast Clipper Ship, circa 1860, print by Currier and Ives

The boom years of the Clipper Ship Era began in 1843 as a result of the growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China.

Clipper Sovereign of the Seas ( clipper ) | Sovereign of the Seas set the record for World's Fastest Sailing Ship in 1854

The Clipper Ship " Flying Cloud " off the Needles, Isle of Wight, by James E. Buttersworth, 1859 – 60.

* Alexander Laing, Clipper Ship Men ( 1944 )

* Bruce D. Roberts, Clipper Ship Cards: The High-Water Mark in Early Trade Cards, The Advertising Trade Card Quarterly 1, no.

* Bruce D. Roberts, Clipper Ship Cards: Graphic Themes and Images, The Advertising Trade Card Quarterly 1, no.

* Bruce D. Roberts, Museum Collections of Clipper Ship Cards, The Advertising Trade Card Quarterly 2, no.

* Bruce D. Roberts, Selling Sail with Clipper Ship Cards, Ephemera News 19, no.

* City of Adelaide Clipper Ship, one of the few surviving clippers

* Clipper Ship cards

* Clipper Ship Cards, Flikr collection

Clipper Ship City of Adelaide ( 1864 ) | City of Adelaide in 1864

* May 7 – Clipper Ship City of Adelaide launched in Sunderland, United Kingdom.

* Model of Flying Cloud Clipper Ship, Smithsonian

In Colonial times the Clipper Ship Tea Route from China to England was the longest trade route in the world.

The Clipper Ship " Flying Cloud " off the Needles, Isle of Wight, by James E. Buttersworth, 1859-60.

* City of Adelaide Clipper Ship Website: Devitt and Moore

Loch Etive is also the name of an Iron Clipper Ship that Joseph Conrad served aboard.

*# 12 The Happy Hollisters and the Old Clipper Ship

Clipper Ship ' Southern Cross ' Leaving Boston Harbor, Boston, 1851

* The Good Ship Lollipop, a riverboat in the Gateway Clipper Fleet

Shortly after the early morning take off from Pago Pago, bound for New Zealand the Clipper exploded.

They crossed into Portugal and subsequently traveled to the United States in two groups: on the USS Trenton from Lisbon to Baltimore in July 1940, and on the Pan American airliner Yankee Clipper in October 1940.

* 1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight.

* May 20 – Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.

* November 22 – The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean ( the aircraft later reaches its destination, Manila, and delivers over 110, 000 pieces of mail ).

On August 11, 1982, while operating under the registry N754PA for its original owner Pan Am and nicknamed " Clipper Ocean Rover ," it was assigned to fly from Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii as Flight 830.

Randall dresses in his civilian gear preparing to board the Clipper to go home, as he is now discharged from service.

On July 9, 1982 Clipper Defiance, a Boeing 727 – 235 ( N4737 ), operating as Pan Am flight 759, crashed minutes after takeoff from New Orleans Airport in the worst accident in aviation history involving microburst-induced wind shear.

On that day, Clipper Victor operated a charter flight, PA 1736, from Los Angeles to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Spain, via New York.

The Thames Clipper commuter ferry service runs from Woolwich to Canary Wharf and the City.

London River Services, operated by Thames Clipper, provide a peak hour, seven days a week service to central London ( Savoy Pier ) from Woolwich Arsenal Pier ( adjacent to the Royal Arsenal residential development ).

Yankee Clipper Council was formed from a merger of the North Essex Council, North Bay Council, and Lone Tree Council in 1993.

Thompson and William D. Edger ( editor of the original Crawford Clipper ) circulated a petition for Crawford to become a village, but upon getting getting only 69 of the 200 needed signatures, secured the remaining signatures from willing soldiers at Fort Robinson.

Together, they departed on Tuesday, October 15, 1940, from Chungking ( Chongqing ), China, arriving at the Port of Hong Kong where they boarded American Clipper ( Boeing B-314, Pan American Airlines No. NC 18606, Captain J.

He departed Hong Kong on June 19, 1940 aboard Pan American Airways Honolulu Clipper ; departed Manila, Philippines, on June 21 ; arrived at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, on June 25 ; departed from Naval Auxiliary Air Facility Mills Field, Oakland, California, at 7: 00 pm, June 25 aboard a United Airlines DC-3 ; arriving at Washington National Airport, June 26.

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.

It was tried with design cues from the 1956 Clipper ( visual in the grille and dash ).

* Ports of Piscataqua: Soundings in the Maritime History of the Portsmouth, N. H., Customs District from the Days of Queen Elizabeth and the Planting of Strawberry Banke to the Times of Abraham Lincoln and the Waning of the American Clipper, William Gurdon Saltonstall, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1941

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.

The Clipper language is being actively implemented and extended by multiple organizations / vendors, like XBase ++ from Alaska Software and FlagShip, as well as free ( GPL-licensed ) projects like Harbour and xHarbour.

* Print from Clipper to newest Windows printers article

Clipper ships took 5 months to sail the 17, 000 miles from New York to San Francisco

* December 7 – The Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 China Clipper arrives in Beijing, China, from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York after a stop in Tokyo, Japan.