Composite full rigged ship, 852 net registered tons. In 1886, he participated in a celebrated race against the clipper Taeping to bring the first cargo of tea of the season to London from Foochow China. She foundered, probably south of Australia, in 1872.
Composite full rigged ship, 963 tons gross. She served briefly in the tea trade and then in the Australian wool trade to the United Kingdom. In 1895, he was bought by Portuguese interests and was renamed Ferreira. In 1922, she became a training ship in the UK under her original name and has been used as a museum in dry dock at Greenwich, UK since 1954.
Seattle based operator of high-speed catamaran passenger ferries providing service between Seattle and Victoria. The company was acquired by a large German company in 2016.
Originally built in 1868, the clipper Thermopylae was sold to Portugal in 1985, and renamed Pedro Nunes. In 1903, she was acquired by the Portuguese Navy for use as a training ship. She was sunk with full naval honours of the coast of Cascais, Portugal in 1907.
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.
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.