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* Clipper ships developed by New Englanders in the mid-19th Century
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Clipper ships were mostly made in British and American shipyards, though France, the Netherlands and other nations also produced some.
Clipper ships largely ceased being built in American shipyards in 1859 when, unlike the earlier boom years, only 4 clipper ships were built.
Clipper ships took 5 months to sail the 17, 000 miles from New York to San Francisco
The Clipper Route, taken by ships sailing from Europe to Australia in order to take advantage of the Roaring Forties
* Task Force 53, Logistics Force / Sealift Logistics Command Central, Military Sealift Command ( MSC replenishment ships plus USN MH-53E Sea Stallion helicopters and C-130 Hercules, C-9 Skytrain II and / or C-40 Clipper aircraft )
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 developed
Fairchild research developed the Clipper architecture, a 32-bit RISC-like computer architecture, in the 1980s, resulting in the shipping of the C100 chip in 1986.
The Clipper chip was a chipset that was developed and promoted by the U. S. National Security Agency as an encryption device to be adopted by telecommunications companies for voice transmission.
* Kliper ( sometimes Clipper ), a space vehicle developed by the Russian Roskosmos in cooperation with the ESA
Fortezza was developed for the U. S. government's Clipper chip project and has been used by the U. S. Government in various applications.
To make matters worse, while the dBASE for DOS clones ( FoxBase and Clipper ) copied dBASE closely, the Windows versions of these products were developed without an existing dBASE for Windows model.
* Skipjack-the cipher developed for Clipper and finally published in 1998.
Clipper was developed by Australian-based ERG Group and Motorola under the ERG-Motorola alliance in April 1999.
It is a modernized, open sourced and cross-platform version of the older and largely DOS-only Clipper system, which in turn developed from the dBase database market of the 1980s and 90s.
Other products of historical significance are PGPfone and Nautilus ( designed as a non-backdoored alternative to Clipper, now officially discontinued, but still available on SourceForge ), SpeakFreely, and the security VoIP protocol wrapper Zfone developed by the creator of PGP.
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Dreadnought, a Fast Clipper Ship, circa 1860, print by Currier and Ives
The Clipper Ship " Flying Cloud " off the Needles, Isle of Wight, by James E. Buttersworth, 1859 – 60.
Clipper ship Southern Cross leaving Boston Harbor, 1851, by Fitz Hugh Lane
Clipper ship sailing card for the " Free Trade ", printed by Nesbitt & Co., NY, early 1860s
The S42B Pan American Clipper II, piloted by Captain Edwin Musick, landed at Kingman on its first flight on March 23, 1937.
This was encouraged by the support of the first two versions of Microsoft's Windows NT for Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC-and to a lesser extent the Clipper architecture and SPARC.
In particular, the US government's Clipper chip scheme for escrowed encryption of telephone conversations ( encryption secure against most attackers, but breakable at need by government ) was seen as anathema by many on the list.
In 1939, DiMaggio was nicknamed the " Yankee Clipper " by Yankee's stadium announcer Arch McDonald, when he likened DiMaggio's speed and range in the outfield to the then-new Pan American airliner.
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.
On September 5, 1986 a Pan Am 747 named the Clipper Empress of the Seas ( N656PA ), operating as Pan Am flight 73, was taken over by hijackers while on a scheduled stop in Karachi.
* Clipper Round the World Yacht Race-established by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, the first man to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe, the first Clipper race took place in 1996.
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 ).
* Pan Am L-1011-500 Clipper Aircraft Names by FAA Registry Number
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.
The M / V Caribbean Clipper ( left ) was unloaded by crane six months later and refloated.
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.
Northwood is home to Camp Yavneh, a Jewish summer camp on Lucas Pond, and Wah-Tut-Ca Scout Reservation, a Boy Scout Camp run by the Yankee Clipper Council.
The Clipper, although a graceful classic automobile, became outdated as the new envelope bodies started appearing led by Studebaker and Kaiser-Frazer.
Available in just two body styles, Town Sedan ( 4-door sedan ) and Country Sedan ( 4-door station wagon ), they were powered by Studebaker's V8 with McCulloch supercharger, delivering the same as the 1956 Clipper Custom, although at higher revolutions.
The Martin Company also produced the noted China Clipper flying boats used by Pan American Airways for its transpacific San Francisco to the Philippines route.
With a Song in My Heart is a 1952 biographical film which tells the story of actress and singer Jane Froman, who was crippled by an airplane crash on February 22, 1943, when the Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat she was on suffered a crash landing in the Tagus River near Lisbon, Portugal.
Clipper ship Sweepstakes, built by Westervelt & Sons in 1853
It is served by Thames Clipper river boat services to Canary Wharf, Greenwich and the O < sub > 2 </ sub > in the east, and Embankment to the west.
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In 1857 he focused his attention as a journalist and writer on baseball after joining the New York Clipper, and was also soon hired on to provide coverage for other New York papers including the Sunday Mecury.
Pan Am wanted to expand flights into the Pacific and include Australia and New Zealand to their " Clipper " air routes.
Shortly after the early morning take off from Pago Pago, bound for New Zealand the Clipper exploded.
* 1936 – Joe DiMaggio, familiarly referred to as Joltin ' Joe and The Yankee Clipper makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees.
* May 20 – Pan-American Airways begins trans-Atlantic mail service with the inaugural flight of its Yankee Clipper from Port Washington, New York.
Joseph Paul " Joe " DiMaggio ( ; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999 ), nicknamed " Joltin ' Joe " and " The Yankee Clipper ", was an American Major League Baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career for the New York Yankees.
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.
During part of the 1930s, before the opening of New York City's Marine Air Terminal, Port Washington was the New York base of the Yankee Clipper Boeing 314 seaplane.
* 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.
* July 9 – The Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-235 Clipper Defiance, operating as Flight 759, crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, immediately after takeoff from New Orleans International Airport, destroying six and severely damaging five houses.
* Yankee Clipper ( New York-Boston )
The show was later sponsored by Clipper Craft menswear and broadcast from New York City.
Meanwhile the sporting weeklies Clipper and Sporting Life were based in New York and Philadelphia.
The New England Hurricane of 1938 ( or Great New England Hurricane, Yankee Clipper, Long Island Express, or simply the Great Hurricane ) was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869.
In 1869, a reporter for the New York Clipper described Phonney Martin as an " extremely hard pitcher to hit for the ball never comes in a straight line ‚ but in a tantalizing curve.
On 4 December 1941, the Pacific Clipper departed Kanton for New Caledonia as the final civilian flight before the war.
According to the 1900 census, this well known marriage was preceded by a marriage to William A. Sims who served briefly as her manager and according to the New York Clipper she was granted a divorce from John Blanchard in early early 1904.
* New York Clipper, a newspaper from 1853 to 1924
* The New York Sunday Mercury publishes a box score for a Knickerbockers – Gothams baseball match, reprinted by the Clipper a few days later
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