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.
Clipper Ship Lightning by Bruce Von Stetina. The term clipper originally applied to a fast horse and most likely derives from the term clip meaning speed, as in going at a good clip. The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation in English is from 1830.