Clackamas County / Ë k l Ã¦ k É m Éª s / is a county in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 375,992, making it Oregon's third-most populous county. Its county seat is Oregon City.
By 1850, this journey was halved. For instance the clipper ship Oriental was able to sail from Hong Kong to London in 97 days that year. The absolute one day distance record made by a clipper involved 436 nautical miles. Clipper ships were fast but no specific rig type was standard. By 1845, the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel and a specific rig type was usually indicated.
Now the term clipper is for ships for which plans or models can prove a clipper rating. Clipper ships ranged in size from a few hundred tons to over 4000. Between one and four hundred were built, depending on which ones you want to count as clipper ships.n the past, the term clipper was used loosely to cover any ship that had made a fast passage, many of which were designed for a specific trade. Variations were tea clippers, wool clippers, opium clippers, nitrate clippers and Baltimore clippers which were used as blockade runners, privateers and slavers.