Grain race
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Grain Race or The Great Grain Race was the informal name for the annual windjammer sailing season generally from South Australia's grain ports on Spencer Gulf to Lizard Point, Cornwall on the southwes
Archibald Russell and Ponape, two windjammers that sailed on the grain trade.
In Queensland.
Pamir at the entrance to the English Channel.
Tea race
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In the middle third of the 19th century, the clippers which carried cargoes of tea from China to Britain would compete in informal tea races to be first ship to dock in London with the new crop of eac
Grain race
…sails and gear, and it meant the expense of repairing or replacing those damages and losses. "Unlike the hell-bent racing captains of the celebrated tea-clippers of the 1860s ... the captain of a grain ship who lost gear more likely would lose his job." Åland Maritime Museum…
Thermopylae, a tea clipper built in 1868