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Later British Tea Clippers
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chorage twenty minutes after the Ariel, ninety-nine days before, she had won the race by twelve minutes. Both ships had sailed 16,000 miles.
The Serica passed Deal four hours later; all three ships went up the Thames on the same tide, and after the usual tugboat race, the Taeping arrived in the London Docks at 9:45, the Ariel in the East India Docks at 10:15, and the Serica in the West India Docks at 11:30 p.m. on September 6th. The Fiery Cross passed Deal on the 7th and the Taitsing on the 9th, each 101 days from the Pagoda Anchorage.
The following is an abstract of their logs:
| Ariel | Taeping | Serica | Fiery Cross |
Taitsing | ||||||
| From the Pagoda Anchorage to Anjer | 21 | days | 21 | days | 23 | days | 21 | days | 26 | days. |
| Prom Anjer to the Cape of Good Hope | 25 | " | 26 | " | 27 | " | 25 | " | 28 | " |
| Prom the Cape of Good Hope to the equator | 20 | " | 19 | " | 18 | " | 20 | " | 19 | " |
| From the equator to Deal | 33 | " | 33 | " | 31 | " | 35 | " | 28 | " |
| Total | 99 | " | 99 | " | 99 | " | 101 | " | 101 | " |
