At the height of the sailing era, four of the world’s fastest clippers raced home with the season’s precious early cargo of tea Mike Dash Captain John Keay, master of the crack new British ...

The British and Americans say ... the so-called “Century of Humiliation” for the Chinese. You call the clipper ship builder Donald McKay a “mechanic and craftsman as American hero.” ...

G REENWICH, ENGLAND — Technology, rot and now fire have caught up with the Cutty Sark, the graceful clipper ship built in the 19th century to speed fresh tea from China to Britain's tables.

the Cutty Sark – preserved in Greenwich – is the only tea clipper left in existence. The ship was built in 1869 for John Willis, who wanted her to be the fastest ship in the annual race to ...

Clipper ships were the disruptive technology of their ... and alcohol is legal); the assertion that ‘everyone else is doing it’ (the British were leaders in opium sales); and deflection ...

John Byron, grandfather of the British poet Lord Byron ... the remote island of Chiloe believe that a fully lit unmanned clipper ship appears at night to those who will soon die at sea, a Chilean ...

Captain John Keay, master of the crack new British clipper ship Ariel, had good reason to feel pleased with himself. He had secured the first cargo of tea to come to market at the great Chinese ...