Fiery Cross (clipper)
Fiery Cross, in later years, with the rig reduced to barque | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Owner | John Campbell, Glasgow |
| Builder | Shipyard at Chaloner, Liverpool |
| Launched | 1860 |
| Notes | First tea clipper home in 1861,1862, 1863 and 1865.: 122 |
| History | |
| Norway | |
| Name | Ellen Lines |
| Acquired | 1887 |
| Out of service | 1889 or 1893 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Clipper ship |
| Tonnage | 695 NRT: 122 |
| Length | 185 ft (56 m): 120 |
| Beam | 31.7 ft (9.7 m): 120 |
| Depth | 19.2 ft (5.9 m): 120 |
| Notes | Designed by William Rennie.: 120 Equipped with Cunningham's roller-reefing top-sails and steel masts. |
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Fiery Cross was a famous British tea clipper which sailed in the Great Tea Race of 1866. She was the first ship home in the tea seasons of 1861, 1862, 1863, and 1865.
She was the second tea clipper of this name; the first Fiery Cross, built in 1855, had the same owner and designer and was also built in Liverpool. This earlier ship was lost on the then-uncharted Fiery Cross Reef in the China Sea on 4 March 1860 (the crew reached land safely in her boats). The new ship was already being built and so took on the name of her predecessor.