TABLE II
List of VESSELS MENTIONED AS PROBABLY LOADING TEA AT HANKOW FREIGHT RATES ASKED OR OBTAINED AND CARGO CARRIED
ARE GIVEN WHERE KNOWN
NOTE: The cargo has sometimes been given in space tons, piculs or lbs. Tea is taken as stowing at 3 space tons per ton weight and figures converted. Such converted figures are given in brackets.
THE HANKOW STEAMER TEA RACES Year Vessel Freight Rate Per Space Ton. Cargo Carried Vessel Freight Rate Per Space Ton. Cargo Carried 1877 Braemar Castle £4/- /- 5/-/- Loudon Castle £5/10/- Glenartney Hankow 5069 (space) Stad Amsterdam Clippers Gleneam Gleneagles 5/10/- Tartar i cu. ft. Cutty Sark John Worcester 4/5 /- 1878 Afghan Coriolanus 3231 (space) Cairnsmuir Cutty Sark 1077 weight Loudon Castle Ocean King Radnorshire 3831 (space) Fleurs Castle Sarpedon Feronia Stad Haarlem Glenartney Viking Gleneagles 5/10/- ? 1277 weight Clippers Ambassador 4/10/- 3510 (space) 1190 weight 4/10/- 3525 (space) 1175 weight £4 per 4/-/ 5. J 4/-/- per 5053