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The China Clippers (1914)

by Basil Lubbock

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Indeholder "Dedication", "Preface", "The Tea Clippers, Part 1", " The Baltimore Clippers", " The Opium Clippers", " The Falcon", " Sylph and other Pioneer Opium Clippers", " American Opium Clippers", " Later British Opium Clippers", " The Early China Tea Trade", " The Yankee Clippers", " Rainbow", " Captain Robert H. Waterman and Natchez", " Sea Witch", " The Tragedy of the Bald Eagle", " American Clippers in the China Trade previous to 1850", " The Boom in American Clipper Ship building", " American Clipper Ships launched 1850-1851", " The Surprise", " The Staghound", " The Witchcraft", " The Sea Serpent", " N. B. Palmer", " The The Flying Cloud", " The Challenge", " The Comet", " The Swordfish", " Log of Clipper Ship Swordfish from San Francisco to Shanghai", " Flying Fish", " The Witch of the Wave and Nightingale", " American Tea Passages, 1851 - 1853", " The Rivalry of Great Britain and America in the Tea Trade", " The Oriental loads Tea for the British Market", " The Aberdeen Clipper Model", " Stornaway and Chrysolite", " Chrysolite's Maiden Voyage, 1851", " The Challenge of the American Navigation Club", " Dicky Green and the Challenger", " The Challenger and the Challenge", " Witch of the Wave's Passage Home in 1852", " Race between Stornoway and Chrysolite", " Best Tea Passages of 1852", " Cairngorm", " Tea Passages of 1853", " Lord of the Isles and Northfleet", " Tea Passages of 1854", " Nightingale's Passage in 1855", " British Tea Clippers of the late Fifties", " A Yankee Captain's Cuteness", " Kate Carnie and Fiery Cross", " Robin Hood and Friar Tuck", " Tea Passages of 1856", " Tea Passages of 1857", " Tea Passages of 1858", " Race between Cairngorm and Lammermuir", " Ellen Rodger and Ziba", " Chaa-sze", "The Tea Clippers, Part 2", " The Builders and Designers of the Famous Tea Clippers", " The Beauty of Steele's Creations", " Pride of the Clyde Shipwrights", " Craze for Neatness Aloft in Aberdeen Ships", " Sail Plans of the Crack Clippers", " Deck Plans", " Dead Rise and Ballasting", " Sheer", " Rigidity of Build", " Speed of Tea Clippers compared with the Black Bailers, Yankee Clippers, and Later Iron Clippers", " Weatherliness of the Tea Clippers", " Thermopylae beating to Windward", " Weatherliness of Sir Lancelot and Ariel", " Best Day's Run of a British Tea Clipper", " Speed of the Crack Tea Clippers compared", " The Handling of a Tea Clipper", " The Owners", " The Captains", " Ruses used by the Captains against One Another", " The Pride of Captains in their Ships", " Tea Clipper Crews", " Thermopylae's Cock", " Outward and Intermediate Passages", " Life on the Coast", " The Pilots on the Coast - Chinese and European", " Chinese Pirates", " Lord Macaulay and the Pirate Lorchas", " The Pirates and Ariel's Sampan in Hong Kong Harbour", " The Looting of the Young Lochinvar", " Cutting out Ballast Lighters at Yokohama in 1867", " To Japan against the N.E. Monsoon", " The Tea Ports", " Allowances to be made in Calculating the Racing Records", " The Tea Chests", " Preparations for the Race Home from Foochow", " Loading the Tea", " The Falcon, First of the Improved Clippers", " The Tea Race of 1859", " The Tea Race of 1860", " Fiery Cross", " Flying Spur", " The Lord Macaulay", " The Tea Race of 1861", " The Tea Race of 1862", " The Tea Race of 1863", " Clipper Ships Launched 1861 - 1862", " Serica and Taeping", " Black Prince and Belted Will", " Composite Construction", " The Tea Race of 1864", " The Tea Race of 1865", " The Ariel", " The Sir Lancelot", " Sir Lancelot's Unfortunate Maiden Voyage", " The Great Tea Race of 1866", " Titania", " Titania's Disastrous Passage Out in 1866 - 1867", " Sir Lancelotdismasted on her Passage Out in 1866 - 1867", " Ariel's Record Passage Out to Hong Kong in 1866 - 1867", " The Tea Race of 1867", " The Tea Clippers built in 1867, Spindrift, Lahloo, Leander, and Undine", " The Tea Race of 1868", " Thermopylae", " Windhover and Katsow", " The Tea Race of 1869", " Cutty Sark", " Outward Passages to China 1869 - 1870", " Norman Court", " The Caliph", " Wylo, Ambassador, Eme, and Osaka", " Oberon", " The Tea Race of 1870", " The Unlucky Black Adder", " Hallowe'en", " Lothair", " Outward Passages in 1870 - 1871", " Tea Passages of 1871", " The China Trade in 1872", " Tea Passages of 1872", " Norman Court in a Typhoon", " The Race between Cutty Sark and Thermopylae", " Tea Trade of 1873", " Best Passages, 1874 - 1878, Shanghai, Foochow and Whampoa to London", " The After-Life of the Tea Clippers", "Appendix", " Appendix A: British Tea Clippers", " Appendix B: Sail Plan of Tea Clipper Sir Lancelot", " Appendix C: Spar Measurements of Norman Court", " Appendix D: Log of Thermopylae on her Maiden Voyage, 1868 - 1869", " Appendix E: Abstract Log of Hallowe'en, Captain James Watt, Shanghai to London", " Appendix F: Complete List of Thermopyla's Outward and Homeward Passages under the Aberdeen White Star House Flag 1868 - 1890", " Appendix G: Complete List of Cutty Sark's Australian Passages", " Appendix H: — Abstract Log of Ariel, Captain Keay, Foochow to London (1866). From Captain Keay's Private Journal", " Appendix I: Spar Plan of Cutty Sark", " Appendix J: Letter from Captain Joseph Wilson, last owner of Challenge", "Illustrations", " Taeping and Ariel racing up Channel - Tea Race, 1866", " Falcon - Opium Clipper", " Surprise", " Flying Cloud", " Flying Fish", " Lord of the Isles", " Spirit of the Age", " Captain John Keay", " Captain Anthony Enright", " Captain Richard Robinson", " House Flags", " Sir Lancelot", " Titania", " Lahloo", " Thermopylae racing with Cutty Sark", " Spindrift", " Thermopylae", " Cutty Sark", " Cutty Sark lying in Sydney Harbour", " Norman Court", " Deck of Cutty Sark in 1913", " Mainmast and Midshiphouse, looking forward", " Break of the Poop", "Plans", " Staghound and Flying Cloud", " Lord of the Isles", " Fiery Cross, No. 1", " Midship Section of Sir Lancelot", " Model of Titania", " Track Chart of the 1866 Race, and Thermopylae's Track, London to Melbourne, 1868 - 1869", " The Lines of Leander (with stem as originally designed)", " Leander", " Thermopylae", " Cutty Sark's Jury Rudder", " Sail Plan of Cutty Sark".

Meget grundig gennemgang af teclipperne og deres betydning for handelen med Kina. ( )
  bnielsen | Oct 23, 2016 |
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