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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. 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.

5. 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.

6. Lahloo (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   This was about the last of the tea clipper racing, for the combined competition of steam and the Suez Canal proved too powerful for sail. No more tea clippers were built after 1869; by degrees these beautiful vessels were driven into other trades; and so the Clipper Ship Era drifted into history." [3]

7. 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.

8. Kaisow (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   Kaisow, a composite clipper, was built by Robert Steele & Company at Greenock and launched on 19 November 1868. [1] Robert Steele & Company also built the famous clippers Ariel and Taeping which took part in the great tea race of 1866, and Sir Lancelot, another renown clipper ship. [1] Kaisow was the 173rd vessel to have been built by the yard.

9. Wylo (clipper) - Wikipedia

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   Wylo a composite clipper was built by Robert Steele & Company, Greenock, and launched on 15 April 1869. [2] Robert Steele & Company also built the famous clippers Ariel and Taeping who took part in the great tea race of 1866, and Sir Lancelot another renown clipper ship. [1] Wylo was the 174th and last vessel to be built by Robert Steele & Company.