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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 ...
[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 ...
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.
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.
As a tea clipper, she had a crew of 36. [ 2 ] : 123–124, 231–240 [ 1 ] Flying Spur was one of the 16 clippers waiting to load tea in Fuzhou in May 1866.
Taitsing was a full-rigged, composite-built clipper ship, measuring 192 feet (59 meters) in length, with a beam of 31.5 feet (9.6 meters) and a draught of 20.15 feet (6.14 meters). She was built in 1865 by Charles Connell & Co, Glasgow , Scotland , for Findlay & Longmuir, Greenock , Scotland.
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.
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.