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Challenger was a wood clipper ship built in 1852 by Richard & Henry Green, Blackwall for Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, London. A model of a vessel of the clipper type, the four-masted barque named Belle Étoile A clipper was a very fast multiple-masted sailing ship of the 19th century. ...
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
From "The Copartnership Herald", Vol. I, no. 8 (October 1931)
“...American ships, which still held the supremacy until soon after Richard Green had declared his decision not to be beaten by them. He had a new tea clipper built at his yard at Poplar, called the Challenger, of 699 tons, and she was sent off to China in 1852. Having loaded tea at Shanghai, she set out for London, calling in at Anjer, where she met the American ship, Challenge (clipper), which was on her way to London with a cargo of tea from Canton. The Challenge was a 2,000 tonner,built expressly for speed and capacity, and was the largest clipper built by the Americans until that time. So it was that a race home was started by these two vessels, the smaller British clipper gaining London two days ahead of her huge rival. Naturally, this set the hearts of all the British owners aglow, and was instrumental in urging on the efforts of our shippers to capture the China trade.” Shanghai (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Shanghainese: ), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the Peoples Republic of China and the eighth largest in the world. ...
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In 1863 June 14 - October 20 The Challenger sailed from Hankow to London in 128 days with a cargo of tea at £7 10s to £8 per ton. 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ...
Hankou (漢口; pinyin: Hànkǒu; Wade-Giles: Hankow) is one of the three towns, together with Wuchang and Hanyang, which are included in modern day Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei province, in China. ...
London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ...
Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ...
She measured 174'×32'×20' and tonnage 699 NM, 649,74 GRT & NRT, and 614,07 tons under deck.
She was designed for the China tea trade. Tea leaves in a Chinese gaiwan. ...
External links
- http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Clippers/Challenger(1852).html
References - It Is Not Death to Die; Jim Cromarty; OMF books 2001
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