Sentence examples for clipper from inspiring English sources
To complete the walk, pass by the Cutty Sark, the famous clipper, and continue on to Cutty Sark station where you can catch the DLR back to Lewisham.
After long repairs, the three-masted tea clipper will reopen to the public on April 26th in a new setting at Greenwich her racing lines and brass-sheathed hull held in a lattice of glass and steel so that visitors may walk aboard, around and beneath her.Launched in 1869 at the peak of British commercial power, the Cutty Sark was a response to globalisation.
Yet like a British tea clipper tethered to a rotting continental hulk, the City is seen as threatened by hostile and risk-averse EU regulators who worse are being given new opportunities for mischief by closer euro-zone integration.Other battles loom.
The great clipper ships, the evolutionary product of centuries of sailing, were lost in large numbers in the same infamous southern oceans where the Vendée boats came to such grief.
The trend was started by the citizens of the old industrial city of Bilbao, who were clever enough in the 1990s to persuade a first-rate American architect, Frank Gehry, to design them their own Guggenheim Museum (a spectacular titanium-clad clipper that now stands on the site of an old shipyard), and to get the Basque government to pay for it.
The Yankee clipper seems likely to cut the scud with ease.
The 19th-century tea clipper was one of the last large trading vessels to be built before steam replaced sail.
"THE Yankee clipper is under her sky-sails, she cuts the sparkle and scud".
And, as of this year, the venerable Ocean Youth Club is no more.The International Sail Training Association itself is about to lose its longtime sponsor, the blenders of Cutty Sark whisky (whose name it means "short shirt", in Scottish dialect is derived from a famous 19th-century tea-clipper now in dry dock at Greenwich, on the river Thames; hence the connection).
(New parties must now choose from an unappealing list of still-available symbols, including the toothbrush and the nail-clipper).
Prior to and during World War II, Boeing Airplane Company built several famous commercial aircraft, such as the Model 247 twin-engine monoplane, the Model 314 flying boat (one of Pan American's Clipper-class aircraft), and the Model 307 Stratoliner, the first airliner with a pressurized cabin.
