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clipper clipper
clipper type of sailing ship, designed for speed. Long and narrow, the clipper had the greatest beam aft of the center; the bow cleaved the waves; and the ship carried, besides topgallant and royal sails, skysails and moonrakers—a veritable cloud of sails. The type originated in the United... Read more
Humber Humber
Humber navigable estuary of the Trent and Ouse rivers, c.40 mi (60 km) long and from 1 to 8 mi (1.6-12.9 km) wide, NE England, forming the boundary between between the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull (N) and North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire (S). Spurn Head, with a lighthouse, is at... Read more
Clipper ships Clipper ships
CLIPPER SHIPS CLIPPER SHIPS, long, narrow wooden vessels with lofty canvas sails, reigned as the world's fastest oceangoing ships from about 1843 to 1868. The word "clipper" might have originated from "clip," meaning to run swiftly. Tea from China quickly lost its flavor in the hold of a ship, and... Read more
China Clipper China Clipper
CHINA CLIPPER CHINA CLIPPER, the first class of hydroplanes in the San Francisco-Manila trans-Pacific service. This aircraft, with a crew of seven and Captain Edwin C. Musick at the controls, took off from Alameda, Calif., near San Francisco, for the first trans-Pacific mail flight on 22 November... Read more
Sailboat Sailboat
Sailboat Background For people who like to be near the water, sailboats provide a means of skimming over its surface. Even when the water is frozen, iceboats (sailboats with runners or blades on the hull) can glide across the ice. The sailboat is a form of transportation, a... Read more
Clipper Chip Clipper Chip
Clipper Chip In 1993, officials in the administration of President William Jefferson Clinton announced the proposed use of a cryptographic device intended to protect private communications for all but authorized monitoring by government agencies. Termed the "clipper chip,"... Read more
Joe DiMaggio Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio (Joseph Paul DiMaggio) , 1914-99, American baseball player, b. Martinez, Calif. One of the most charismatic of 20th-century sports figures, "Joltin' Joe" joined the New York Yankees of the American League in 1936 and quickly rose to stardom, winning the league's batting title with... Read more
Cutty Sark Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark, the only survivor of the British tea clippers, is now preserved as a museum ship at Greenwich, London, as an example of the great days of sail. She was built to the order of Captain Jock Willis, son of the Captain Willis who was known as ‘Old Stormy’ and immortalized in... Read more
Mourning Becomes Electra Mourning Becomes Electra
Mourning Becomes Electra, dramatic trilogy by O'Neill, produced and published in 1931. Based on the ancient Greek legend, its three parts are: (I) Homecoming; (II) The Hunted; (III) The Haunted.I. At the close of the Civil War, Brigadier‐General Ezra Mannon, descendant of a Puritan family,... Read more
Pedro Nunes Pedro Nunes
Thermopylae, a famous British tea clipper built in 1868 by Hood of Aberdeen. Ship rigged, she had a gross tonnage of 991 tons and was a long-time rival of the Cutty Sark. On her maiden voyage she created the first of several records, when she took just 60 days from Gravesend to Melbourne, a time... Read more

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