Corporate body
Corporate body
Corporate body
·
1896 - 1907
An extreme composite clipper ship designed by Bernard Waymouth of London and built by Walter Hood & Co. in 1868. She measured 212’0” x 36’0” x 20’9” and tonnage 991 GRT, 948 NRT, and 927 tons under deck. The under-deck coefficient was 0,58. Rigged with royal sails, single topgallant, and double top-sales. She was sunk by gunfire and torpedoes by units of the Portuguese Navy at sea off the Tagus in 1907.
Corporate body
·
1863 - 1871
The clipper Taeping was a composite full rigged ship, 767 net registered tons. She participated in the celebrated tea clipper race of 1866 against Aerial and was wrecked in the South China Sea in 1871.