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88 relations: Aberdeen, Alan Villiers, Alexander Hall and Sons, American Memory, American Neptune, American Revolution, Anglesey, Antelope of Boston, Ariel (clipper), Atlantic Ocean, Baltimore Clipper, Brigantine, Builder's Old Measurement, California Gold Rush, Cannon, Cape Horn, Carronade, Challenger (clipper), Champion of the Seas, Chesapeake Bay, City of Adelaide (1864), City of Sunderland, Clipper route, Copper sheathing, Cutty Sark, Donald McKay, Draft (hull), Dry dock, Dutch clipper, East India Company, East Indies, Extreme clipper, Falls of Clyde (ship), Fell's Point, Baltimore, Flying Cloud (clipper), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Tea Race of 1866, Greenwich, Gunwale, Houqua (clipper), Java, John Dryden, Joseph Warren Holmes, Laudanum, Letter of marque, Library of Congress, Limehouse, List of clipper ships, List of people who sailed on clipper ships, Lugger, ..., Mast (sailing), Medford, Massachusetts, Medium clipper, Mystic Seaport, National Geographic Society, Netherlands, Opium, Oxford English Dictionary, Panic of 1857, Piracy, Point of sail, Privateer, Rainbow (clipper), Royal Charter (ship), Sail, Sail plan, Sailing ship, Samuel Hartt Pook, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Schooner, Shipyard, Smuggling, Sovereign of the Seas (clipper), Square rig, Steamship, Stem (ship), Suez Canal, Thomas De Quincey, Topsail, Training ship, Transom (nautical), United States Naval Institute, War of 1812, Wilkie Collins, William Jardine (merchant), William Pile (shipbuilder), Windjammer, Yacht. Expand index (38 more) »
Aberdeen
Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.
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Alan Villiers
Alan John Villiers (23 September 1903 – 3 March 1982) was an author, adventurer, photographer and mariner.
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Alexander Hall and Sons
Alexander Hall and Sons was a shipbuilder that operated in Aberdeen from 1797 to 1957.
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American Memory
American Memory is an Internet-based archive for public domain image resources, as well as audio, video, and archived Web content.
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American Neptune
The American Neptune: A Quarterly Journal of Maritime History and Arts was an academic journal covering American maritime history from its establishment in 1941 until it ceased publication in 2002.
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.
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Anglesey
Anglesey (Ynys Môn) is an island situated on the north coast of Wales with an area of.
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Antelope of Boston
Antelope was a medium clipper built in 1851 in Medford, near Boston, Massachusetts.
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Ariel (clipper)
Ariel was a clipper ship famous for making fast voyages between China and England in the late 1860s.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Baltimore Clipper
Baltimore Clipper is the colloquial name for fast sailing ships built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States of America, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Brigantine
A brigantine was a two-masted sailing vessel with a fully square rigged foremast and at least two sails on the main mast: a square topsail and a gaff sail mainsail (behind the mast).
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Builder's Old Measurement
Builder's Old Measurement (BOM, bm, OM, and o.m.) is the method used in England from approximately 1650 to 1849 for calculating the cargo capacity of a ship.
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California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.
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Cannon
A cannon (plural: cannon or cannons) is a type of gun classified as artillery that launches a projectile using propellant.
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Cape Horn
Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.
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Carronade
A carronade is a short, smoothbore, cast iron cannon which was used by the Royal Navy and first produced by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Scotland, UK.
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Challenger (clipper)
Challenger was a wooden clipper ship built in 1852 by Richard & Henry Green, Blackwall Yard for Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, London.
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Champion of the Seas
Champion of the Seas was the second largest clipper ship destined for the Liverpool, England - Melbourne, Australia passenger service.
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Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia.
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City of Adelaide (1864)
City of Adelaide is a clipper ship, built in Sunderland, England, and launched on 7 May 1864.
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City of Sunderland
The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough.
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Clipper route
In sailing, the clipper route was the traditional route derived from the Brouwer Route and sailed by clipper ships between Europe and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand.
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Copper sheathing
Copper sheathing is the practice of protecting the under-water hull of a ship or boat from the corrosive effects of salt water and biofouling through the use of copper plates affixed to the outside of the hull.
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Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship.
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Donald McKay
Donald McKay (September 4, 1810 – September 20, 1880) was a Canadian-born American designer and builder of sailing ships.
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Draft (hull)
The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull (keel), with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained.
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Dry dock
A dry dock (sometimes dry-dock or drydock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.
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Dutch clipper
While the majority of the clipper ships sailed under British and American flags, more than a hundred clippers were built in the Netherlands.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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East Indies
The East Indies or the Indies are the lands of South and Southeast Asia.
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Extreme clipper
An extreme clipper is a clipper designed to sacrifice cargo capacity for speed.
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Falls of Clyde (ship)
Falls of Clyde is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship, and the only remaining sail-driven oil tanker.
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Fell's Point, Baltimore
Fell's Point is a historic waterfront neighborhood in the southeastern area of the City of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Flying Cloud (clipper)
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Great Tea Race of 1866
In the middle third of the 19th Century, the clippers which carried cargoes of tea from China to Britain would compete in informal races to be first ship to dock in London with the new crop of each season.
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Greenwich
Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.
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Gunwale
The gunwale is the top edge of the side of a boat.
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Houqua (clipper)
Houqua was an early clipper ship with an innovative hull design, built for A.A. Low & Brother in 1844.
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Java
Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.
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John Dryden
John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.
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Joseph Warren Holmes
Captain Joseph Warren Holmes (April 1, 1824 – December 12, 1912) was an American sea captain noted for sailing around Cape Horn 84 times and Cape of Good Hope 14 times without a shipwreck or loss of a crewman.
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Laudanum
Laudanum is a tincture of opium containing approximately 10% powdered opium by weight (the equivalent of 1% morphine).
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Letter of marque
A letter of marque and reprisal (lettre de marque; lettre de course) was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture enemy vessels.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Limehouse
Limehouse is a district in east London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
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List of clipper ships
At the 'crest of the clipper wave' year of 1852, there were 200 clippers rounding Cape Horn.
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List of people who sailed on clipper ships
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Lugger
A lugger is a class of boat, widely used as traditional fishing boats, particularly off the coasts of France, England and Scotland.
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Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Medford, Massachusetts
Medford is a city 3.2 miles northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Medium clipper
A medium clipper is a type of clipper designed for both cargo carrying capacity and speed.
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Mystic Seaport
Mystic Seaport or Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut is the largest maritime museum in the United States.
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.
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Opium
Opium (poppy tears, with the scientific name: Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (scientific name: Papaver somniferum).
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Panic of 1857
The Panic of 1857 was a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.
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Point of sail
A point of sail is a sailing craft's direction of travel under sail in relation to the true wind direction over the surface.
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Privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
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Rainbow (clipper)
Rainbow, launched in New York in 1845 to sail in the China trade for the firm Howland & Aspinwall, was the first extreme clipper ship.
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Royal Charter (ship)
Royal Charter was a steam clipper which was wrecked off the beach of Porth Alerth in Dulas Bay on the north-east coast of Anglesey on 26 October 1859.
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Sail
A sail is a tensile structure—made from fabric or other membrane materials—that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles.
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Sail plan
A sail plan is a set of drawings, usually prepared by a naval architect which shows the various combinations of sail proposed for a sailing ship.
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Sailing ship
The term "sailing ship" is most often used to describe any large vessel that uses sails to harness the power of wind.
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Samuel Hartt Pook
Samuel Hartt Pook (January 17, 1827 – March 30, 1901) was a Boston-based American naval architect noted for designing very fast clipper ships.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.
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Schooner
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts.
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Shipyard
A shipyard (also called a dockyard) is a place where ships are built and repaired.
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Smuggling
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
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Sovereign of the Seas (clipper)
Sovereign of the Seas, a clipper ship built in 1852, was a sailing vessel notable for setting the 1854 world record for fastest sailing ship—22 knots.
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Square rig
Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts.
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Steamship
A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically drive (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.
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Stem (ship)
The stem is the most forward part of a boat or ship's bow and is an extension of the keel itself.
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Suez Canal
thumb The Suez Canal (قناة السويس) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.
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Thomas De Quincey
Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821).
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Topsail
A topsail is a sail set above another sail; on square-rigged vessels further sails may be set above topsails.
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Training ship
A training ship is a ship used to train students as sailors.
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Transom (nautical)
In naval architecture, a transom is either the surface that forms the stern of a vessel or one of the many horizontal beams that make up that surface (e.g., the "wing transom", etc.). Transoms may be flat or curved and they may be vertical, raked forward, also known as a retroussé or reverse transom, angling forward (toward the bow) from the waterline to the deck, or raked aft, often simply called "raked", angling in the other direction.
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United States Naval Institute
The United States Naval Institute (USNI), based in Annapolis, Maryland, is a private, non-profit, professional military association that seeks to offer independent, nonpartisan forums for debate of national defense and security issues.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
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Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer.
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William Jardine (merchant)
William Jardine (24 February 1784 – 27 February 1843) was a Scottish physician and opium trader who co-founded the Hong Kong based conglomerate Jardine, Matheson & Co.
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William Pile (shipbuilder)
William Pile (10 October 1823 – 5 June 1873) was a British shipbuilder.
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Windjammer
A windjammer is a collective name for a general class of large sailing ship built to carry bulk cargo for long distances in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Yacht
A yacht is a watercraft used for pleasure or sports.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper
