![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/The_British_clipper_%27Taitsing%27_%28Great_Arrow%29_off_Hong_Kong.png/300px-The_British_clipper_%27Taitsing%27_%28Great_Arrow%29_off_Hong_Kong.png) The British clipper
Taitsing
(Great Arrow) off Hong Kong
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History
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United Kingdom
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Name
| Taitsing
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Owner
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- Findlay & Longmuir, Greenock; 1865-1876
- James Findlay, Greenock; 1876-1880
- Robert D Willis, London; 1880-1883
- [1]
: 166
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Builder
| Charles Connell & Co,
Glasgow
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Launched
| 25 July 1865
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Fate
| Sank 20 September 1883
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Notes
| Arrived fifth in
The Great Tea Race of 1866
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General characteristics
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Class and type
| Clipper
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Tonnage
| 815
NRT
[1]
: 166
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Length
| 192 ft
[1]
: 166
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Beam
| 31.5 ft
[1]
: 166
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Depth
| 20.1 ft
[1]
: 166
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Sail plan
| Full-rigged ship
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Taitsing
was a famous British tea
clipper
.
Tea Clipper Taitsing
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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.
[1]
: 166
Taitsing
was launched on 25 July 1865.
[2]
The ship sailed from
London
to
Chinese
ports like
Amoy
,
Hong Kong
,
Wusong
,
Fuzhou
, and
Shanghai
. She also travelled from Fuzhou to
New York
in 1874. In 1876 the ship was sold to James Findlay of Greenock. She was sold to John Willis & Son [Robert D. Willis] of London in 1879.
[1]
: 235?243
The Great Tea Race of 1866
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The Pagoda Anchorage, Fuzhou, in 1866. The Tea Clippers lined up awaiting their cargo. Pictured from Left to Right - The 'Black Prince', 'Fiery Cross', 'Taitsing', 'Taeping', and 'Flying Spur'
Laden with just over a million pounds (453,600 kg) of tea,
Taitsing
, under the command of
Captain Nutsford
, raced nine other ships from China to
England
in
The Great Tea Race of 1866
. The first five ships ?
Taiping
,
Ariel
,
Serica
,
Fiery Cross
, and
Taitsing
? finished the 14,000-
nautical-mile
(25,930-km) race within three days of each other.
Taitsing
arrived fifth, in "the closest run ever recorded."
[3]
Taitsing
′s best 24-hour run during the race was on 2 July 1866, when she traveled 318 nautical miles (589 kilometres), averaging 13.25 knots (24.54 km/h)).
[4]
Sinking
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Taitsing
, carrying a load of patent fuel from
Swansea
,
Wales
, sank in the
Indian Ocean
off Nyuni Island,
Zanzibar
, on 20 September 1883.
[1]
: 169
In culture
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A painting of
Taitsing
signed by the Chinese painter
Hingqua
, along with a painting of the clipper
brig
Venus
, sold at auction at
Sotheby's
in New York City in 2009.
[5]
Hungarian writer
Andras Dekany
centered his second fiction book of his "Monostory" trilogy "The Black Prince" ("A fekete herceg")
[6]
around the Taitsing, and the great tea clipper race. Andras Dekany was a writer, journalist, critic, while in early life worked among other things as sailor. A number of his books spoke about sailboats and sailors, including the "Monostory" trilogy, a fictional work centered on Lt. Balazs Monostory who becomes sailor during the failed
Hungarian Revolution of 1848
and in this fictional book he becomes captain of Taitsing for the time of the race.
[7]
References
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MacGregor, David R. (1983).
The Tea Clippers, Their History and Development 1833-1875
. Conway Maritime Press Limited.
ISBN
0-85177-256-0
.
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"Launches".
Glasgow Herald
. No. 7972. Glasgow. 26 July 1865.
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Lars Bruzelius (12 September 1866).
"The Great Tea Race, 1866"
. The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. p. 5
. Retrieved
18 February
2010
.
The Taeping took in 1,108,700 lbs. of tea, the Ariel 1,230,900 lbs., the Serica 954,236 lbs., the Fiery Cross 854,236 lbs., and the Taitsing 1,093,130 lbs.
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Arthur H. Clark (1911).
"The clipper ship era; an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869"
. G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 330
. Retrieved
18 February
2010
.
The best twenty -four hours' runs were as follows : Average, Ariel June 25 317 miles 13.2 knots, ... Taitsing July 2 318 13.25
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Sotheby's (24 January 2009).
"Important Americana, Sale: N08512, Location: New York"
. Retrieved
18 February
2010
.
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF FRED F. AND LOIS K. ROGERS CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY, THE CLIPPER SHIP VENUS AND THE CLIPPER SHIP TAITSING: TWO CHINA TRADE SHIP PORTRAITS
- ^
"The Black Prince"
. 2018.
- ^
Dekany Andras (1966).
"A fekete herceg"
. Mora, Budapest.
Further reading
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David R. MacGregor (1988).
"Fast Sailing Ships: Their Design and Construction, 1775-1875"
. Naval Institute Press. pp. 239?40
. Retrieved
18 February
2010
.
Taitsing, ship, compared with Serica, 240 ... compared with other clippers, 239-40
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