The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

THE GREAT SHIP RACE FROM CHINA

This year's race has proved quite as extraorli-
nary as that of last year. The Taepiug, it seems, is
not the winner after all, the Ariel, 853 tons, having
arrived yesterday morning in the East India Docks
in about five hours less time than that in which the
journey was accomplished by the Taeping. The
Ariel sailed from Foo-chow-foo on the 13th of June
at half-past 8 o'clock in the morning, while the
Taeping sailed nine days previously at 11 o'clock in
the morning, arriving in the, London Docks between
2 and 3 o'clock p.m. on Saturday week last, the
14th. The number of days from the 4th of June to
the 14th of September is 102. The Ariel was pre•
cisely the same number of days on her voyage, but
arriving in the East India Docks at 7 o'clock yes-
terday morning she was the winner of the race by
about five hours. It has been asserted that the
Taeping was the winner in the last year's race. It
is quite true that both she and the Ariel came
up the Channel neck and neck, but the Ariel
got in advance of her in coming up the river
and was the first to arrive off Blackwell. In
consequence, however, of there not being suffi-
cient depth of water at the Dock entrance she could
not be hauled into the Dock and had to wait till
next tide, while the Taeping passed her and suc-
ceeded in getting into the London Docks the mo-
ment she came up to them, and thus claimed the
prize. Both ships were built at Greenock in the same
year. Lloyd's Register of Shipping furnishes the fol-
lowing details respecting them :—They were both
built on the composite principle—iron frames and
teak planking. The Ariel is 853 tons, 197 ft. 4in.
in length, 33ft. gin. in breadth of beam, and
2ft. depth of hold ; classed A 1 for 14 years. The
Taeping is 767 tons register, 183 ft. 7in. in length,
31ft. in breadth of beam, and 19ft. gin. in depth of
hold, and also similarly classed. Of the 11 other
ships engaged in the race, two—the Fiery Cross,
which sailed the day after the Taeping, and the
Maitland, which was the first ship out from Foo-
chow-foo, passed through the Downs in the course
of yesterday afternoon, and were expected to arrive
in the river last night; the remainder of the vessels
are the Serica, White Adder, Zibi, Teasing, Flying
Spur, Black Prince, Yangtze, Chinaman, and the
Golden Spur. The Arid, in her report of her recent
speakings, passed the Black Prince, White Adder,
Serica, and the Fiery Cross. Great as was the in-
terest evinced yesterday to learn the result of the
race, another arrival from China completely put the
Ariel and the Tacping in the shade as regards speed.
This ship, however, was not in the race. She sailed
from Shanghai on the 16th of. June, after the de-
parture of most of the ships engaged in the race,
took what is termed the eastern passage, and arrived
in the Downs yesterday morning just previous to
the Ariel. The eastern route is considerably longer
than that taken by the ships in the race ; yet she
accomplished the voyage in 100 days. Her name
is the Sir Launcelot, belonging to Greenock, 886
tons register, commanded by Capt. Robinson. She
also was built on the Clyde, and her dimensions,
measurement in deck, &c., are precisely the same
as the Ariel. She spoke on her voyage three of the
race ships—namely, the Chinaman, on the 3d of
August, off Madagascar, as also the Yangtze; and
on the 11th of August the Flying Spur, off Algoa
Bay.

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