The Race,painter,Dawson,Montegue.
The 'other' Arial,in a race from China to Enland.
Ariel was a clipper ship famous for making fast voyages between China and England in the late 1860s.
Ariel was a full rigged ship of 853 tons net register, measuring 197.4 feet x 33.9 feet x 21 feet. She was designed by William Rennie, and built in 1865 by Robert Steele & Co., Greenock for Shaw, Lowther & Maxton of London. Like most tea clippers she was composite built, of timber planking over iron frames.
Ariel is most famous for almost winning The Great Tea Race of 1866, an unofficial race between Foochow, China and London with the first tea crop of the 1866 season. Premium prices were paid for the first consignment to reach London. The clipper Fiery Cross left Foochow on 29 May and Ariel, Taeping and Serica on the 30th. On 6 September Taeping docked twenty minutes ahead of Ariel, and about two hours ahead of Serica. Fiery Cross and Taitsing arrived two days later.
This is Ariel moored on the HBYC marina in Hout Bay Harbour,when considered against the design of the original Wylo,which is also said to be 32ft long on deck,its easy to se how Nick Skeates took the basic origins of design from Frank Wightmans Wylo,then expanded on it making it a much larger boat at the beam and far less quirky at the ends,the front well at the bow is still there though,thats a safe work space I think.
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