Red Rover
Books
- Fast Ships, Bad Trade Opium Clippers and the Making of the China War · Liszt Think
In 1829, the East India Company’s monopoly birthed a vessel designed to outrun monsoons and defy imperial law.
- The Red Rover’s Revolution…he sandbars, and the monsoon. But the vessel taking form under his supervision was unlike anything he had previously launched. Her name was Red Rover. She would displace 254 tons—a modest burden for a ship intended to carry one of the most valuable cargoes in the world. Her lines were sha…
- A Fleet Takes Shape…go would be ashore before the sun cleared the hills above Canton. The speed of the ship had become the speed of the entire system. What the Red Rover had proved possible in 1829, the trade now required as standard practice. This chapter shifts from a single pioneering vessel to the rapid…
- The Lintin AnchorageThe Red Rover dropped anchor off Lintin Island in the spring of 1833, her hull still bearing the dark paint that marked her as one of William Clifton’s v…