Taeping
Sign in to saveThe Taeping was a tea clipper built in 1863 by Robert Steele & Company of Greenock and owned by Captain Alexander Rodger of Cellardyke, Fife. Over her career, Taeping was the first clipper to dock in London in three different tea seasons. This compares with the highly successful , who won the "premium" in four separate tea seasons.
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- Construction
- Career
- 1864–65 and 1865–1866 tea seasons
- 1866–67 tea season
- Later voyages
- Loss
- References
The Taeping was a tea clipper built in 1863 by Robert Steele & Company of Greenock and owned by Captain Alexander Rodger of Cellardyke, Fife. Over her career, Taeping was the first clipper to dock in London in three different tea seasons. This compares with the highly successful , who won the "premium" in four separate tea seasons.
Taeping was one of the front runners in the very close Great Tea Race of 1866. Despite being ten minutes ahead of Taeping at Deal, Taeping docked 28 minutes before Ariel as she did not need to wait so long for the tide to rise to allow entry to her dockand it was whoever docked first that was the winner.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Taeping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.