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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 ...
«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. 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 ...
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
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.
Most clipper cards were printed in the 1850s and 1860s, and represented the first pronounced use of color in American advertising art. Perhaps 3,500 cards survive. With their rarity and importance as artifacts of nautical, Western, and printing history, clipper cards are valued by both private collectors and institutions. [35]
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.
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