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
Thermopylae, a tea clipper built in 1868
Blackwall frigate
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Blackwall frigate was the colloquial name for a type of three-masted full-rigged ship built between the late 1830s and the mid-1870s.
Tea race
…East India Company lost its monopoly on trade with China. In the years immediately after this, the independent British tea merchants used ships called Blackwall frigates for China trade. These were smaller versions of the East Indiaman that had been used during the monopoly. As well, some ships were built with finer…
The Blackwall frigate Northfleet (1853)
The semi-clipper Clyde (1860) 1,151 tons