Lintin Island
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 Empire’s Last Monopoly…leven days becalmed off the coast of Cochin-China. Now, as his crew furled the worn topsails and the anchor dropped into the muddy water of Lintin Island’s anchorage, he could see the other ships already at their moorings—their cargo long since sold, their captains gone up the river to Canton…
- The Red Rover’s Revolution…her, owned her, and would operate her. His investment, his risk. The maiden voyage would be her proving ground. The route from Calcutta to Lintin Island, the receiving station in the Pearl River estuary where opium was stored before being smuggled into China, covered roughly 3, 000 miles. A…
- A Fleet Takes Shape…ited to see who would build the next fast vessel, and who would be left behind. By the spring of 1832, the question had answered itself. At Lintin Island, where the receiving hulks rode at anchor in the sheltered bay, the opium trade no longer moved at the pace of the old country ships. A fas…