Ship Details
Rig
American Ship
Built
1783
Tonnage
360
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Description
Empress of China, also known as Chinese Queen, was a three-masted, square-rigged sailing ship of 360 tons,[3] initially built in 1783 for service as a privateer.[5] After the Treaty of Paris brought a formal end to the American Revolutionary War, the vessel was refitted for commercial purposes. She became the first American ship to sail from the newly independent United States to China, opening what is known today as the Old China Trade and transporting the first official representative of the American government to Canton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_China_(1783) (accessed on 24/11/2017)
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