In an article in the Scientific American a short time ago, we said, in answer to some hasty remarks made by the " Niagara Mail," when ever it is shown that a British clipper ship has beaten any ...

For those who haven't followed the situation closely, many container ships right now have practiced 'slow steaming' due to a glut of ships being built worldwide. Essentially, they are sailing at ...

Once the clipper forms, it moves rapidly across the U.S. Northern Plains and then to the east off the mid-Atlantic coast. The weather system gets its name from 19th century ships that were known ...

The name is brilliant: "vintage tonnage". It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th-century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even 19th-century clipper ...

Oracle Road, like the town of Oracle, wouldn’t have its mystical Greek name if a teen from New Brunswick, Canada hadn’t ridden a famed clipper ship around Cape Horn in the late 1850s on his ...

and from clipper ships of the 19th century, one of the fastest ships of that time. A clipper originates when warm, moist winds from the Pacific Ocean come into contact with the mountains in the ...