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	Pan American Clippers 1931 - 1946 @ flyingclippers.com
		Used briefly in Alaska and renamed Alaska Clipper in 1940 and then Hong Kong Clipper II in 1941 to be used for the Manila/Hong Kong route.
		Served as Bermuda Clipper on the Bermuda route in 1940.
		Temporarily named California Clipper to replace 18602 that was being moved to Atlantic service, but within months was permanently named Pacific Clipper.
	www.flyingclippers.com /panam.html

	ThamesClippers: Fleet
		The flagship of the Thames Clippers fleet, The Hurricane Clipper, with its unique Damian Hirst livery, runs prime time commuter services, and works the Tate Boat route during the day.
		The Moon Clipper has joined the Riverline commuter route.
		The Thames saw a rare event on June 23rd with the official ceremony to launch two new boats, the Sun Clipper and Moon Clipper.
	www.thamesclippers.com /fleet (127 words)

	Pacific Clipper's Round-the-World Flight
		The actual route followed by the PanAM Pacific Clipper in December and January 1941-42.
		The Pacific Clipper, Captain Robert Ford commanding a crew of ten, was in the air between New Caledonia and New Zealand when the Pearl Harbor war flash was received.
		But Captain Ford and the Pacific Clipper had made it home.
	www.geology.wisc.edu /~maher/pacclip.html (2576 words)

	Illustrated Article - Mystery "Sugar Cane" Clipper Covers
		The same procedures were used at Canton Island by entomologist Richard R. Danner, to prevent pests from entering from New Caledonia and New Zealand, when the South Pacific clipper route was opened.
		Pests that could threaten their sugar crop might be carried in from across the ocean on the clippers.
		Establishment of the Pacific air mail route led to much concern on the part of sugar glowers in Hawaii.
	www.metroairpost.com /articles/sugarcane/sugarcane.html (713 words)

	Amazon.com: Wings to the Orient: Pan American Clipper Planes, 1935-1945 : A Pictorial History: Books: Stan Cohen
		Cohen's book is among the better works to document the short but exciting history of Pan American's pacific clipper operations, providing insight into the pilots and aircraft that flew it and the route they took.
		For the lay person who doesn't understand aeronautical engineering, but thinks the Clippers were possibly the coolest thing in the world, this is a great book to have around.
		I found the discussion of the North Haven Expedition and the Pacific Clipper base construction most interesting.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0933126611?v=glance (643 words)

	1936: Horror Campaign
		If it makes you feel safer, they are not the same model as the Samoan Clipper which exploded while surveying the New Zealand Route.
		If by chance you were staying in San Francisco, mischance causes it to take you a day longer to learn of it, and by the time you do, the China Clipper has already departed...
		The route is flown by three Martin M-130 flying boats.
	www.vialarp.org /1936/gameinfo_orient.shtml (643 words)

	Pan Am Clippers
		To Alaska 1940 and renamed Alaska Clipper, to Manila-Hong Kong route 1941 and renamed Hong Kong Clipper II.
		Survey flights, to Bermuda route 1940 and renamed Bermuda Clipper.
		There is much misinformation and speculation in data found about the Clippers, and I feel this is the most accurate representation, despite still having a few areas of contest.
	www.aerofiles.com /PAA-clippers.html (643 words)

	Pan Am Clippers
		To Alaska 1940 and renamed Alaska Clipper, to Manila-Hong Kong route 1941 and renamed Hong Kong Clipper II.
		Survey flights, to Bermuda route 1940 and renamed Bermuda Clipper.
		There is much misinformation and speculation in data found about the Clippers, and I feel this is the most accurate representation, despite still having a few areas of contest.
	www.aerofiles.com /PAA-clippers.html (565 words)

	Volvo Sponsors Historic Clipper Ship Voyage to Promote China Business : Jalopnik
		Volvo announced it will sponsor the voyage of a newly built clipper ship that will travel a once-popular trade route from Sweden to China.
		The voyage, more than a decade in the planning, will take the East Indiaman Götheborg III, an updated version of a historic vessel, from Götheborg to Shanghai, a route once used by 18th century trading firm The Swedish East India Company to import silks, spices, tea and porcelain products.
		Volvo will provide financial support for the trip, a collaboration between representatives of the two cities, with an eye toward promoting its expanding auto business in China.
	www.jalopnik.com /cars/adspromotions/volvo-sponsors-historic-clipper-ship-voyage-to-promote-china-business-033489.php (565 words)

	Clipper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between Britain and its colonies in the east, in the trans-Atlantic trade, and in the New York-to-San Francisco route round The Horn during the Gold Rush.
		Clippers were built for seasonal trades such as tea, where an early cargo was more valuable, or for passenger routes.
		Clippers, outrunning the British blockade of Baltimore, came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots (9 km/h), clippers aimed at 9 knots (17 km/h) or better.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clipper (904 words)

	Boeing 314 Clipper - USA
		The Yankee Clipper opened the northern passenger route on July 8,1939, carrying 17 passengers at the same fare.
		The Yankee Clipper project dated back to 1935, with the start of a series of negotiations between Pan American World Airways and Boeing for the production of a flying-boat capable of guaranteeing transatlantic passenger flights with a high degree of safety, comfort, and speed.
		It outstripped all rivals in size, with twice the size of the Sikorsky S-42 and outweighed the Martin M-130 China Clipper by 15 tons.
	www.aviation-history.com /boeing/314.html (842 words)

	Clipper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between Britain and its colonies in the east, in the trans-Atlantic trade, and in the New York-to-San Francisco route round The Horn during the Gold Rush.
		Clippers were built for seasonal trades such as tea, where an early cargo was more valuable, or for passenger routes.
		Clippers, outrunning the British blockade of Baltimore, came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots (9 km/h), clippers aimed at 9 knots (17 km/h) or better.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clipper (723 words)

	Clipper
		Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between Britain and its colonies in the east, in the trans-Atlantic trade, and in the New York-to-San Francisco route round The Horn during the Gold Rush.
		In the twentieth century, the term Clipper was revived for the flying boats that opened new global air routes, including vast stretches of the Pacific, to passenger service.
		Clippers came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots, clippers aimed at 9 knots or better.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/clipper (723 words)

	Clipper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between Britain and its colonies in the east, in the trans-Atlantic trade, and in the New York-to-San Francisco route round The Horn during the Gold Rush.
		Clippers came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots (9 km/h), clippers aimed at 9 knots (17 km/h) or better.
		Decline in the use of clippers started with the economic slump of 1855 and continued with the gradual introduction of the steamship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clipper (723 words)

	Clipper
		Clippers sailed all over the world, primarily on the trade routes between Britain and its colonies in the east, in the trans-Atlantic trade, and in the New York-to-San Francisco route round The Horn during the Gold Rush.
		In the twentieth century, the term Clipper was revived for the flying boats that opened new global air routes, including vast stretches of the Pacific, to passenger service.
		Clippers came to be recognized as ships built for speed rather than cargo space; while traditional merchant ships were accustomed to average speeds of under 5 knots, clippers aimed at 9 knots or better.
	clipper.wikiverse.org (723 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Thermopylae
		The largest of the tea clippers, on her maiden run to Australia (her usual first stop outward bound) under Captain Robert Kemball, she was only 63 days from London to Melbourne, a record never beaten; the average of her first ten passages out was only 69 days.
		This was the fastest of her eleven runs with tea from China, the average of which was under 107 days, and she was the first of the returning tea clippers in 1873, 1874, and 1877.
		While Thermopylae generally performed better in the tea trade during the 1870s, when steamers on the tea route forced them into the Cape Horn wool trade from Australia, Cutty Sark proved an excellent heavy-weather sailer.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_091000_thermopylae.htm (393 words)

	History of the Clipper Ship Era
		She was built expressly as a challenge to the great British clipper, Thermopylae, and the two ships were almost identical in size, with a length of 212 feet, a beam of 36 feet and a depth of 21 feet.
		Forty fine clippers and four clipper barques were launched during the year, and all of the shipyards on the east coast were full of new keels.
		Progressively graceful and huge clippers were being built in the New York shipyards at a fever pace: 13 clippers in 1850, 54 in 1851.
	deadeyes.ssmana.org /sections/features/articles/clipper_ship_history.htm (5739 words)

	Travel News River Thames pushes the boats out
		The Moon Clipper will in turn join the Riverline commuter route, for an important and exciting high speed Eastern extension to commuter services, driven by the major regeneration development in the area.
		The second boat, the Moon Clipper was launced by competition winner Penny Griffiths - in keeping with the tradition that boats are always launched by females.
		The boats, two new 32 metre high speed 138 passenger catamarans join the Riverline fleet of Thames Clippers, the TFL supported fast-ferry boat service.
	www.easier.com /view/News/Travel/article-25876.html (176 words)

	GOSHCC: News Archive 2005
		Thames Clippers will operate extra Marathon services on its route between the Savoy Pier (On the Embankment) and Greenwich.
		Thames Clippers are giving away 10 pairs of hop-on, hop-off tickets to GOSH patients, visitors or staff to cheer on the GOSH Marathon team on Sunday 17 April.
		free thames clipper tickets to watch the gosh runners at the london marathon
	www.gosh.org /news/2005/marathon-ferry.html (122 words)

	Lightning, Launched 1854 (Model 1:96 scale)
		Lightning was an American-built clipper used for the voyage to Australia by the Black Ball Line of Liverpool.
		Reputed to be the fastest sailing ship on the route, Lightning covered 436 miles in twenty-four hours on her maiden voyage in 1854 and returned home in a record sixty-three days.
		Lightning was destroyed by fire in 1869 while loading wool at Melbourne.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it0795f&axis=982640849&flash=false&dev= (122 words)

	Water Ways Jan 23, 1999 - ARIEL WINS! Clipper '98
		Clipper '98's race course, on the other hand, except for the rounding of South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, is basically considered a warm water route.
		Clipper '98 race organizers have called Hawaii Yacht Club "Our most hospitable of hosts," and there seems to be no question that it will continue to be so.
		Actually, it was the first boat - the sloop Ariel - of a fleet of seven to be making a stop-over in Hawai`i from an around-the-world race called Clipper '98.
	holoholo.org /waterway/ww990123.html (558 words)

	Boeing 314 Clipper - USA
		The Yankee Clipper opened the northern passenger route on July 8,1939, carrying 17 passengers at the same fare.
		The Yankee Clipper project dated back to 1935, with the start of a series of negotiations between Pan American World Airways and Boeing for the production of a flying-boat capable of guaranteeing transatlantic passenger flights with a high degree of safety, comfort, and speed.
		It outstripped all rivals in size, with twice the size of the Sikorsky S-42 and outweighed the Martin M-130 China Clipper by 15 tons.
	www.aviation-history.com /boeing/314.html (558 words)

	Tall Ship
		The clipper trade was, however, already being seriously undermined by steam ships, able to use the shorter route created by the opening of the Suez Canal.
		Launched in Dumbarton, Scotland, in November 1869, built for Captain Jock Willis, son of 'Old Stormy' Willis, who figured in the sea shanty 'Stormalong', the 'Cutty Sark' was designed to present a challenge to the great British clipper 'Thermopylae' and was almost exactly the same size.
		The 'Cutty Sark' and the 'Thermopylae' only ever raced one another homeward once and, unfortunately, on that occasion, after having gained a four-hundred mile lead, the 'Cutty Sark's rudder was lost in bad weather.
	www.linnetwoods.com /marinezine/1/all_afloat/yachts/tall_ship.htm (798 words)

	IndependentAge - Past events
		With her enormous sails and sleek design, the Cutty Sark was built to be the fastest clipper to sail the China tea route.
		Today she is the world's only surviving tea clipper and this magnificent ship is now a museum and shrine to her bygone days at sea.
		Following our very successful up-river trip to Kew, we were 'all-aboard' for a trip down-river to Greenwich for a private view of the historic tea clipper, the Cutty Sark
	www.independentage.org.uk /fundraising_events/past_events?mysource_site_extension=printer_friendly_pages (605 words)

	All Wood Wings: Boeing 314, Pan Am 'Dixie Clipper'
		The story of the 'Flying Clippers' really begins with the first successful airplane crossing of the Pacific in 1928 and the commercial interests of Pan American to run an air route from the United States to the Far East using American owned islands in the Pacific as stepping stones.
		The Boeing 314 was the largest "flying clipper" and the largest commercial plane until the coming of the jumbo jets some thirty years later.
		Soon the generic term "Flying Clipper" became associated for any large flying boat and was even applied later to the Boeing 314.
	www.allwoodwings.com /4-CivilianAircraft/FlyingClippers,Boeing-314-MasterSeries.htm (605 words)

	The Voyage of the Viti; PAA Clippers; Fred's Bad Navigation Habits
		The route of the Clipper Service from the United States to Australia was pioneered by Pan American Airways, with Harold Gatty appointed the airline's representative in the South Pacific...
		I remember reading an article about the Pan Am Clippers that were in the Eastern Pacific just after Pearl Harbor and were ordered to fly back to the U.S. as quickly and expeditiously as possible.
		Actually there were quite a few more Clippers, the tradition of naming PanAm flying boats "Clipper..." beginning with the introduction of the Sikorsky S-42 in 1934.
	www.tighar.org /forum/Highlights121_140/highlights125.html (605 words)

	Aviation Firsts - Guam
		Of the three-ship fleet of Martin M-130s, the China Clipper was the most famous, in large part due to its notable 1935 first flight.
		Trippe was a man with a mission, and the mission was to blaze a network of international air routes that would gird the globe.
		But all the effort was rewarded when the first M-130, the China Clipper, lifted off on the historic first flight.
	www.dot.state.mn.us /aero/aved/museum/aviation_firsts/guam.htm (463 words)

	Clipper Cruise South Pacific Vacations, Clipper Cruise Information
		Embark the Clipper Odyssey late this afternoon and set sail for the islands of the South Pacific.
		Trace the route of ancient Polynesians on an expedition voyage exploring the remote islands of the South Pacific.
		Depart Moorea early this evening and sail to Papeete in Tahiti, where you'll disembark the Clipper Odyssey and transfer to the airport for your return to the United States.
	www.clippercruisesvacationguide.com /polynesian-paradises-south-pacific-cruise.html (1679 words)

	Air Mails of New Zealand: The Overseas Flights - 1941-1950 (page9)
		After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour the Clipper was ordered to return to the USA avoiding hostile areas, and so left Auckland on 15 December for Noumea, Gladstone (Australia) and Darwin.
		Mail has been seen postmarked in New Zealand from 5 to 14 December endorsed 'Per Clipper' but it has not been confirmed that this mail was carried on the "Pacific Clipper" flight.
		The first flight was made by PAA Boeing 314 NC-18609 "Pacific Clipper" commanded by Captain John H. Tilton.
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /wclark/page9.htm (4352 words)

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