Ariel Square Rigged Sailing Ship in full sail
by Mackenzie Moulton
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Title
Ariel Square Rigged Sailing Ship in full sail
Artist
Mackenzie Moulton
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
I love my sailing ships and this one is a favourite
Ariel was an extreme composite clipper built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Co., Greenock. Dimensions: 197'43'9"1' and tonnage 1058,73 tns, 853 NRT.
She had 100 tons of fixed iron ballast moulded into the limbers. An undated sail-plan in the Science Museum, London, shows her rigged with double top-sails and main skysail.
1865 June 29
Launched at the shipyard of Robert Steele & Co., Greenock, for Shaw, Lowther, Maxton & Co., and put on the China tea trade.
1865 October 14 January 6
Sailed from Gravesend to Hong Kong in 79 days 21 hours, pilot to pilot or 83 days anchor to anchor, against the monsoon.
1866 May 28
Left Foochow with a cargo of 1.230.900 pounds of tea for London. In the Great Tea Race of 1866, the Ariel docked at East India Docks 20 minutes before the Taeping docked at the London Docks.
1867
Came second after Sir Lancelot beaten by ? hours after 99 days from Foo-Chow in the Tea Race of 1867.
1868
Arrived as the first ship to London in the Tea Race of 1868, one hour ahead of Taeping.
1872
Posted missing outward bound for China. painted on a 30 by 20 inch canvas in oils
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November 24th, 2014
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