In Aberdeen, Scotland, the shipbuilders Alexander Hall and Sons developed the " Aberdeen " clipper bow in the late 1830s: the first was the Scottish Maid launched in 1839.

During the first and second World Wars, several battleships and aircraft carriers were built with a " clipper bow " for improved hydrodynamic efficiency.

Narrating a voyage in a clipper ship from Bombay to New York in the early 1860s, Clark wrote, " The anchor came to the bow with the chanty of ' Oh, Riley, Oh ,' and ' Carry me Long ,' and the tug walked us toward the wharf at Brooklyn.

The circumstances preceding the mutiny on the Bounty and Jack London's story " Make Westing " poignantly illustrated the difficulty it caused for mariners seeking to round Cape Horn on the clipper ship route between New York and California.

Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

While some sources have rated the lagoon water as non-potable, testimony from the crew of the tuna clipper M / V Monarch, stranded on Clipperton for 23 days in 1962 after their boat sank, indicates otherwise.

In early 1962 ( as mentioned above ), Clipperton provided a home to nine crewmen of the sunken tuna clipper MV Monarch, who were stranded on the island for 23 days from February 6 to March 1 of that year.

The first attempt at building a larger swift vessel was in America with the Ann McKim, 494 tons OM, built on the enlarged lines of a Baltimore clipper, with sharply raked stem, counter stern and square rig.

From 1870 the clipper trade increasingly focused on trade and the carrying of immigrants between England and Australia and New Zealand, a trade that had begun earlier with the Australian Gold Rush in the 1850s.

* List of people who sailed on clipper ships

* January 21 – The iron clipper runs aground off the east coast of Ireland on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool bound for Australia with the loss of at least 300 of around 650 on board.

Harvey's father rewards Captain Troop by hiring his son, Dan, to work on his prestigious tea clipper fleet, and is delighted at his son's new maturity and their relationship dramatically improves even as Harvey decides to begin his career with his father's shipping lines.

" It is a waypoint on the clipper route followed by clipper ships to the Far East and Australia, and still followed by several offshore yacht races.

The square rig, which reached its maximum development in the clipper ships and trading barques of the late 19th and early 20th century, relies on rectangular sails hung beneath yards, themselves suspended from the masts and set " square " ( i. e., at a right angle to ) the keel of the ship.

The economic boom spurred on by the California Gold Rush that had brought on the era of the clipper ships had turned to bust.

Describing development of the Baltimore clipper ( large chapter on Bermuda sloops and role of Bermudian boatbuilders ).

Adelbert Ames also grew up to be a sailor, becoming a mate on a clipper ship, and also served briefly as a merchant seaman on his own father's ship.

) Historically, the cape has been known to sailors as a major hazard on the traditional clipper route and is sometimes regarded as one of the great capes.

The general silence of the historical record on modern shanties until as late as the 1840s, even as shipping shifted to the even faster clipper ships, suggests that they may not have come into widespread use until the middle of the century.

* King Philip shipwreck, a clipper ship that wrecked on Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California

A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig.

An early example, which is today known as an opium clipper, was the Transit of 1819.

Although the Ann McKim was the first large clipper ship ever constructed, it cannot be said that she founded the clipper ship era, or even that she directly influenced shipbuilders, since no other ship was built like her ; but she may have suggested the clipper design in vessels of ship rig.

The Scottish Maid, 150 tons OM, was the first British clipper ship.

Then in 1845 the Rainbow, 757 tons OM, the first extreme clipper was launched in New York.

From 1851 or earlier another type of clipper ship was also being built in American shipyards, the medium clipper.

From 1859 a new design was developed for British clipper ships that was nothing like the American clippers.

The steam clipper was developed around this time, and had auxiliary steam engines which could be used in the absence of wind.

Although many clipper ships were built in the mid-19th century, Cutty Sark was, perhaps until recently, the only survivor.

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

While the first application of the term " clipper " in a nautical sense is by no means certain, it seems to have had an American origin when applied to the Baltimore clippers of the late 18th century.

Hornet ( clipper ) | Hornet – an American clipper ship of the 1850s

American clipper ship, painted in typical style by Chinese artist

From 1839, larger American clipper ships started to be built beginning with the Akbar, 650 tons OM, in 1839, and including the 1844-built Houqua, 581 tons OM.

Clipper ships largely ceased being built in American shipyards in 1859 when, unlike the earlier boom years, only 4 clipper ships were built.

That is except for a small number built in the 1860s, and the last American clipper ship from the East Boston shipyard of Donald McKay in 1869, the Glory of the Seas.

Earlier British clipper ships had become known as extreme clippers, and were considered to be " as sharp as the American " built ships.

Most clipper cards were printed in the 1850s and 1860s, and represented the first pronounced use of color in American advertising art.

In 1818, the Black Ball Line opened a regularly scheduled New York – Liverpool service with clipper ships, beginning an era when American sailing packets dominated the North Atlantic saloon-passenger trade that lasted until the introduction of steamships.

Palmer was exhibited at The Crystal Palace, London, in 1851, and attracted much attention as a fine example of the American clipper ship.

George Francis Train ( March 24, 1829 – January 5, 1904 ) was an American entrepreneurial businessman who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco ; he organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States, and a horse tramway company in England while there during the American Civil War.

Currier and Ives was the most prolific and successful company of lithographers in the U. S. Its lithographs represented every phase of American life, and included the themes of hunting, fishing, whaling, city life, rural scenes, historical scenes, clipper ships, yachts, steamships, the Mississippi River, Hudson River scenes, railroads, politics, comedy, gold mining, winter scenes, commentary on life, portraits, and still lifes.

The town is located southwest and adjacent to the community of Pointe-du-Chêne which features Parlee Beach Provincial Park as well as the Pointe-du-Chêne wharf which was once the eastern terminus of the European and North American Railway as well as a stopover for Pan-Am's trans-Atlantic " clipper " air service that featured large seaplanes.

Her paternal grandfather was the historian and acclaimed author Henry Dwight Sedgwick III ; her great grandmother, Susanna Shaw, was the sister of Robert Gould Shaw, the American Civil War Colonel ; and her great-great grandfather, Robert Bowne Minturn, was a part owner of the Flying Cloud clipper ship and is credited with creating and promoting Central Park in New York City.

* 1855, Whistler, American clipper ship, 942 tons, two lives lost.