High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 'Taitsing' was a famous British Tea Clipper.She was a full rigged, composite built clipper ship, measuring 192 ft. x 31.5 ft. x 20.15 ft. She was built in 1865 by Charles Connell & Co, Glasgow for Findlay & Longmuir, Greenock.The ship sailed from London to Chinese ports like Amoy, Hong Kong, Woosung, Foochow and Shanghai. She also travelled from Foochow to New York in 1874. In 1876 the ship was sold to James Findlay of Greenock and again to John Willis & Son [Robert D. Willis] of London in 1879.