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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 ...
Taeping, also signalling for a pilot, was coming up fast and was close astern of Ariel at 5:00 am. There was no sign that Taeping would heave to, so Captain Keay ordered Ariel's sails to be filled to keep ahead of the other ship, to be sure of getting the first pilot. On Taeping, Captain MacKinnon conceded and also hove to. [1]: 150
The clipper Fiery Cross left Fuzhou on 29 May and Ariel, Taeping and Serica on the 30th. On 6 September Taeping docked twenty minutes ahead of Ariel, and about two hours ahead of Serica. Fiery Cross and Taitsing arrived two days later. Taeping and Ariel in the Great Tea Race of 1866
Taeping, a tea clipper built in 1863. A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed.The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century.
Taeping [20]: 146–147 1863 United Kingdom (Greenock) Wrecked in 1871 183.7 ft (56.0 m) The first composite tea clipper built by Robert Steele, Taeping won the 1866 tea race by the closest margin over Ariel. First home in 1867, overtaking Serica who had left 2 days earlier. Wild Deer: 1863 United Kingdom (Glasgow) Wrecked in 1883 Unknown
Since 1860, the British have not chartered American clippers. The clipper «Flying Cloud» was the last American ship to bring tea to London. Since 1859, when 11 clippers left Chinese ports at the same time, tea races began to be held regularly. [7] Between May 26 and May 28, 1866, 16 clippers launched from the raid of the city of Fuzhou .
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 ...
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. [2]: 178, 180