page_title: Challenger (clipper)
section_title: Memorial
hierarchical_section_title: Challenger (clipper) / Memorial
caption_attribution_description: English: Richard Green's statue: eastern relief The bronze relief on the eastern side of the pedestal below the statue of Richard Green depicts the first, fast, tea clipper he designed for the China run, the Americans having overtaken the British in speed and thus control of the lucrative tea trade.
context_page_description: Challenger was a wooden clipper ship built in 1852 by Richard & Henry Green, in their Blackwall Yard for Hugh Hamilton Lindsay, London. She was the 291st ship built by the yard and was a remarkable departure from the previous ships produced. In 1850 the American clipper ship Oriental visited West India Docks, the largest clipper ship to visit London and the Admiralty was given permission to take her lines, and this was done by Messrs Waymouth and Cornish, both Lloyd's Surveyors, in the dry dock at Green's Yard in Blackwell. This is probably the reason that it was said that Challenger's design was inspired by and had a close resemblance to the Oriental's.
  From The Copartnership Herald, Vol. I, no. 8
  ...American ships, which still held the supremacy until soon after Richard Green had declared his decision not to be beaten by them. He had a new tea clipper built at his yard at Blackwall, called the Challenger, of 699 tons, and she was sent off to China, Captained by James Killick in 1852. Having loaded tea at Shanghai, she set out for London, calling in at Anjer, where she met the American ship, Challenge, which was on her way to London with a cargo of tea from Canton.
context_section_description: She is commemorated by a bas relief, on the side of the statue of Richard Green. The statue stands outside the Poplar Baths in London, not far from where she was built.
caption: Richard Green's ship, the Challenger
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