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We have good reason to re- member and be grateful to the clippers and clipper ships, not only because their very call up a world of sea romance, of tall ships clothed to the trucks in gleaming pyramids of canvas, or shortened down to a minimum of sail as they went tearing along before the gales of "the Roaring Forties," running their Easting down, and of skilled and gallant seamanship, but also be cause they regained for us the supremacy of the sea, which for a time was completely wrested from us by America.
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coin or silver bars paid for it, the pirate prahus which infested the China waters, the bays along the coast or the narrow channels of approach from India, kept a constant lookout and missed no chance of attacking the opium carriers.
A WONDER SHIP.
LAUNCHING OF GERMANY'S NEW BATTLESHIP.
THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS.
Kiel, Yesterday,
As certainly as one of these lay becalmed or was sailing slug-
A salute Bred from all the ships gishly along the const, out would dart from half a dozen to a score and coastal batteries greeted the of prahus, packed with men arm-arrival of President Hindenburg ed to the teeth, driven under the to preside at the launching, in the of thousands of specta- urge of banks of oars, or sail and presence
sur- tors, of Germany's 10,000 ton oars. If once they could round their victim, her doom battleship Ersatz Preussen, now the Deutschland, the with the christened was scaled, because
every | £4,000,000 wonder ship. prahus dashing in from
This is the ship which upset the direction it was impossible to beat them all off, no matter how calculations of the world's disarma- The vessel's craia- many guns were carried or how ment experts.
ing range is 18,000 miles, with a well they were served.
eleven- A few minutes before the pra- speed of 26 knots, six hus crashed in, a shower of inch and eight five-inch guna, four
from their anti-aircraft guns, and six "stink-pots" flew decks, and, breaking their fragile pedo tubes, being driven by fen-i clay skins as they fell, spurted therweight Diesel engines of secret Germany plans to build out dense volumes of suffocating design.
Deutschlands more
before smoke and flesh-searing chemi-tree cals.
The city was gaily beflagged and Then, as prahu after prahu schooner Scottish Maid, launched crashed alongside, hordes of reck- in 1839 for the London Aber-less savages hacked through the boarding net and poured down on deck. Dozens might be shot or cut down, but there were always more dozens to follow, and the end was inevitable.
und
Both because of their romance their importance, it is of special interest to trace back to the beginning of the clippers, and to find that the first real clip- per built in Great Bri- tain
the little 150-ton
Was
deen run.
The Mother of the Clippers. It may even be fairly argued that she was the first of clippers built anywhere, if we take the meaning of the word to be a vessel built first and foremost for speed; and
remember that the only others given the name up to then were the "Baltimore Clip pers," dating further back to the American War, but built first as fighting ships: a good gun plat form with strength to resist enemy broadsides.
The Scottish Maid was built essentially for speed, because her purpose was to regain the trade which was beginning to go to the paddle-steamers trading out of London River. She was so suc- eessful in making quicker aver- age passages than the steamers that three other schooners were built to her model, and she con- tinued to sail for fifty years, until she was wrecked.
She was
|
1938.
tor-
the whole German fleet was in the tors of the launching included the harbour, while the 50,000 specta-
Chancellor, Dr. Bruening, Mints- students and 10,000 ters, naval attaches, service men, school chil-
dren.
Dr. Braening in a speech said The hapless survivors either Germany had shown the world that had their throats cut on the spot, in spite of restrictions imposed on or-because the pirates always her and severe enjoyed a little of their peculiar she had found
economic distress forms of pleasure mixed with guard peace and protect her hon- strength to safe- business-their hands and feetour. Germany was loyally fulfilling were tied and they were tossed the disarmament obligations, overboard, sometimes singly and expected that disarming by others sometimes in bundles of several would follow. together.
The American Challenge The Opium Clippers were built like yachts, with tall raking masts and vast spreads of can- vas. In the lightest of airs they could "ghost" along at a speed that defled the prahus, and in anything like a good breeze could literally sail rings round them.
Nearly all wore schooners or brigs of up to about 300 tons. certainly the little They were at last beaten by mother of all our clippers if steam because even in a flat calm not of every clipper because the steamer could escape where when a London firm of China the clipper could not. But steam merchants wanted a fast clipper did not beat the pirates, and to the opium trade they this day you may read of some naturally went to the builders pirate gang shipping as coolie of the Scottish Maid, who, to passengers, and rising suddenly their order, built the opium when at sea to overpower and clipper Torrington, again design- murder the crew and take pos- ed in the first place for speed, session of the ship.
for
Years later, when the same
When the monopoly of the firm wanted a tea clipper-ship, H.E. India Company ended, in they again went to the builders of the "Aberdeen Clip the East to Britain was still pro- same 1884, our carrying trade from
pers."
tected by the Navigation Laws, which prohibited foreign ships from bringing cargoes to Britain.
The Opium Clippers needed their speed for even better and grimmer reasons than the Lon-
But the Americans were work- don-Aberdeen ones. For some years before Jardine Matheson ing up a big trade between China and Co. (the London firm whose and America, and a fleet of fast name appears always in the fore-ships for it. They built the first front of those who kept our clip between these and "clippers" be- "clipper ships" the distinction per flag flying) had ordered the Torrington, a number of schoon- ing that in the clipper-ship the ers were employed in the busi- fast yacht-like lines of the small of running opium from schooners and brigs were applied India to China and distributing ing vessels of "ship rig" with to the larger deep-water voyag- square sails on all three masts,
ness
it along the coast there.
Huge profits were earned by these schooners, one, indeed, selling opium worth over a quar- ter of a million sterling in a single year, and the Americans were quickly attracted to the trade.
Caught by Chinese Pirates, But because of their valuable cargoes of opium, or of the hard
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These American clipper ships were storming to and from China and America, while our old Indiamen and Black- wallers were making their leisurely, long, snug-down-for- the-night passages.
And in 1850 there came a shat- tering blow to British pride when, after our Navigation Laws were repealed, the first Ameri- can ship Oriental, arrived in London River 97 days out from China "the fastest voyage on record." Crowds flocked to see the wonder ship, to gaze in ad- miration and awe at her towering masts, her huge spread of yards, her beautiful lines.
and
There was a remarkable còn tretemps owing to a workman pre- maturely removing the wedges. The Deutschland glided into
the water before she was christered, so President Hindenberg her in the water.-Reuter.
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
named
Monday, May 18. Kiungchow, British str., 1,545 tons, Capt. W. J. Larter, from Hoi- how, buoy No. B15.-B. & S.
American
atr., 14,123 tong, Capt. Henry Nel- son, from San Francisco, Kow- loon Wharf.-Dollar S.S. Line.
President Pierce,
Shun Lee, Chinese str., 949 tons,
Capt. B. Miyaoka, from Chefoo, buoy No. C6-Yee Tai Hong. Tuesday, May 15. Atsuta Maru, Japanese str., 7,983
tone, Capt. Y. Kawashima, from Australia via ports, Kowloon Wharf.-N.Y.K.
Celebes Maru, Japanese str., 4,268
tons, Capt. 2. Ito, from Moji vin Sakito, Kowloon Wharf.— O.S.K.
Chipshing, British str., 1,199 tons,
Capt. D. Pethick, from Wei-hai-] wei, buoy No. B2.-J. M.) & Co.
Elpenor, British str., 4,824 tons,!
Captain R. J. Wilson, from
No. Shanghai, buoy
Á),~~ B. & S. Hiroshi Maru No. 3, Japanese str., 664 tone, Capt. Y. Okada, from Keelung, Yaumat! Anchorage. -M.B.H. Ichang, British str., 1,228 tons,
Captain J. S. Anderson, from Swatow, buoy No. CG.-B. & S. Luchow, British str., 1,221 tons,
Capt. W. J. King, from Swa- tow, buoy No. B8-B. & S. Oostkerk, Dutch str., 5,002 tons,
Capt. G. Mohr, from Shanghai, buoy No. A6.-J.CJ.L. Shun Chib, Chinese str., 1,261 tons, Captain T. Thorbjorusen, from Safgon, buoy No. B18-Chang. Tong Ha. Tungsha, Norwegian str., 3,359 tons, Captain Soresen, from Manila; buoy No. A7-Thore- sen & Co... Yuan Lee, Chinese qtr., 1,661 tons, Captain A. Kraukle,' from Swa- tow, broy No. B8-Yuen Song! Fat.
WARSHIPS IN PORT. “
And there was consternation in the City and riverside coffee- houses, where the shipping world' met for business or gossip, on learning that the Oriental had loaded "1,000 tons of lead at £6. a ton, when all ships loading at Whampoa at the same time only -got £3 10s." The American chal- lenge was promptly accepted, and the war was on. The same Lon- don firm that had ordered the first Opium Clipper, gave orders Hermes-No. 1 buoy: to the same builders for The Stornoway, a ship that would compete with the Americans. Boyd Cable in the Evening News.
COMING ???
JUST MAGINE
The following British warships were in harbour to-day
Bruce-In dock:
Odin-In dock.· Otus-In dock. Proteus North. 'arm Sandwich-No. 8 buoy Birdar West, wall dock. Somm No. 12 buoy, Sterling North arm Tarantula-East, wall. Tamar Basin.
Foreign Men-of-War, Argus-French gunboat.” Denver-Anièrican crunboat; submarines,
Mindanao-American gunboat.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1931.
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