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The
Challenge Leaving Hong Kong
Leaving Hong Kong Harbor, October,
1861
Marryat code flags on the mizzenmast
spell out "Challenge" on the 10-year-old clipper,
still the tallest ship of its day. To the right is a Royal
Navy ship of the line, Princess Charlotte, built in Portsmouth
in 1825.
She saw action at the bombardment
of St. Jean D'Arc in the Mediterranean in l840. After service
in the East Indies, she was sent to Hong Kong and used as
a hospital ship. By 1861 she was listed as a receiving ship,
a floating hotel for naval personnel.
To the left of the Princess is the
Flying Cloud, off its stern is the famous China Trade Company,
Jardine and Matheson, fictionalized by James Clavell as the
Noble House.
23 x 30 in. lithograph - 275 edition (remarques
available)
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