Anjer
Books
- Ninety-Nine Days The Great Tea Race of 1866 and the End of the Clipper Era · Liszt Think
In May 1866, five clippers departed Foochow within three days, chasing a lucrative premium for the first new-season tea to reach London.
- The Logbook’s First Page…stract of the logs, published later in the newspapers, would reduce these first days to a series of numbers. Ariel: 21 days from Foochow to Anjer. Taeping: 21 days. Serica: 23 days. Fiery Cross: 21 days. Taitsing: 26 days. The numbers suggest a close race, with most ships reaching the…
- Into the Teeth of the Monsoon…ving a strong southwest breeze, and the Fiery Cross passed three miles to windward. She kept her lead through the Straits of Sunda, passing Anjer Point at noon on June 19th. By the time the fleet reached the coast of Borneo, the monsoon was at full strength. On June 9 and 10, Ariel an…
- The Strait as a Funnel…f the 1866 tea race all headed for the Sunda Strait, sailing past the Paracels, down the coast of Annam and then south to Borneo, bound for Anjer, on the southern side of the Sunda Strait. There was no other practical gateway to the Indian Ocean. Ariel’s sighting of Taeping on June 2,…