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The British clipper 'Taitsing' (Great Arrow) off Hong Kong
1865
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Taitsing (Great Arrow) was, 815NRT, 192 ft. x 31.5 ft. x 20.15 ft, one of the great clippers of the golden age. Composite built as a full rigged ship by Charles Connell & Co, Glasgow in 1865 for Findlay & Longmuir, she took part in the 1866 Great Tea Race. She was lost on September 20, 1883 off Zanzibar.
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Details
- Title: The British clipper 'Taitsing' (Great Arrow) off Hong Kong
- Date Created: 1865
- Location Created: China
- Physical Dimensions: 62.5 x 85 cm
- Provenance: Gift of Anthony J. Hardy, Exhibited: Kennebunkport Maritime Museum, Maine, 1983-99
- Type: Painting
- Publisher: Painting of the China Trade: The Sze Yuan Tang Collection of Historic Paintings (2013), cat. 95
- Rights: ©Hong Kong Maritime Museum
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- object id: HKMM2005.0036.0001
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