Ariel (clipper)
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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
Ariel and Taeping in The Great Tea Race of 1866
Taeping and Ariel in the Great Tea Race of 1866
Robert Steele & Company
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Robert Steele & Company was a shipbuilding firm based in Greenock, Scotland. The business was formed in 1815 by Robert Steele and two sons. It followed the dissolution of an earlier shipbuilding partn
Ariel (clipper)
…season. Ariel was a full-rigged ship of 853 tons net register, measuring 197.4 feet (60.2 m) x 33.9 feet x 21 feet (6.4 m). She was built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Company, Greenock for Shaw, Lowther & Maxton of London. Like the majority of tea clippers launched after 1864, she was composite built, of timber planking over…
Robert Steele (1745-1830), an 1826 portrait by John B. Fleming (1792-1845), McLean Museum and Art Gallery.
View of Greenock, 1816, by Robert Salmon, (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
Robert Steele II (1791-1879) portrait by Norman MacBeth, 1877 (Inverclyde Libraries, Museum and Inverclyde Archives)
Clipper ship Hesperus (1874).