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2. Taeping - Wikipedia

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   Taeping was the first ship built of composite construction in the yard of Robert Steele and Company. Composite construction, a metal framework with wooden planking, gave a stiffer hull that occupied less internal volume, but could still be sheathed with copper (to avoid marine fouling) as the timber electrically insulated the copper from the underlying iron structure – so preventing galvanic ...

3. Great Tea Race of 1866 - Wikipedia

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   [1]: 152 1866 was the last time that a premium was written into the bill of lading of a tea clipper for docking in London with the first of the new crop. [ 2 ] : 122–123 Though clippers raced with cargoes of tea for a few more years, the only commercial advantage was in the reputation as a fast ship, thereby securing a better rate of freight ...

4. Tea race (competitions) - Wikipedia

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   In 1852, the clipper «Challenger» came off Green's shipyard in Blackwall, built according to drawings developed on the basis of measurements from the Oriental. [4] «Hound Dogs of the Ocean» [5] is the nickname in British Isles for clipper ships that delivered cargo from China in three to four months [6] In 1856, the War with China began.

5. Ariel (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   Ariel was a clipper ship famous for making fast voyages between China and England in the late 1860s. She is most famous for almost winning The Great Tea Race of 1866, an unofficial race between Fuzhou, China and London with the first tea crop of the 1866 season.

6. Robert Steele & Company - Wikipedia

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   Robert Steele II (1791-1879) portrait by Norman MacBeth, 1879 (Inverclyde Libraries, Museum and Inverclyde Archives) Sir Lancelot (1865) tea clipper. Robert Steele & Company was a shipbuilder based in Greenock, Scotland, formed in 1815 by Robert Steele (1745-1830) and two sons. It followed dissolution of an earlier shipbuilding partnership ...

7. Lahloo (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   Lahloo was a British tea clipper known for winning the Tea Race of 1870, and finishing second in the Tea Race of 1871. She sailed from Fuzhou to London with over a million pounds (500 tons) of tea in 1868.

8. Clipper - Wikipedia

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   The specific problem is: the "History" of clipper ships is very brief on the 20 year period spanning from the 1870s to the 1890s. This information should also be moved into the "Decline" section if needed. Another remedy is to make sub-headers under "History". Please help improve this article if you can.

9. Flying Spur (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   Flying Spur was one of the 16 clippers waiting to load tea in Fuzhou in May 1866. These ships were judged to be among the fastest in the tea clipper fleet, and so likely to give a good performance in that year's tea race - the informal contest to be the first ship to dock with the new crop of tea.