Chapter 30 "The Opium Clippers"

"The Opium Clippers" "The Opium Clippers" by Bashir Rubbok.The original title of the book and the original name of the author are: Basil Lubbock: The Opium Cippers.Published in England in 1933, with Dozens of maps, diagrams and illustrations. This book is a record of the early nineteenth century, before small steamboats and big steamships became popular, from Europe and India The history of merchant ships traveling to and from the coast of China for trade activities.These merchant ships are large sails The goods transported to China by merchant ships are mainly opium, so they are called "opium fast ships".This

The fast ships carrying opium belonged to the East India Company. After they came to the sea of ​​Guangdong, they stopped at first. It was moored in the Laowanshan area of ​​Lingdingyang, and later it was moored in Hong Kong.Therefore, although this book does not contain all The contents are all related to Hong Kong, but because the subject matter has a special connection with Hong Kong, the narratives can be found everywhere. Everything is directly or indirectly related to Hong Kong.The fifth chapter describes the area during the Opium War opium smuggling.At this time, the "Nanjing Treaty" had not yet been signed, and Hong Kong had not yet been formally ceded to Britain.

But in fact, Hong Kong Island has long been occupied by the British commercial supervisor Elliott, and it has become an "opium". "Clippers" berth terminus, the coastal opium smuggling trade is also centered here. In addition to this book, the author Rube Bock also wrote "China Sea Clippers", "Colonial Clippers" and so on. The books are all works similar to "The Opium Clipper".For this book, the author boasts that it took twenty-five years to collect information, some of the pictures of opium clippers in the book are collected from private collections

Borrowed, some of which can still give us a glimpse of the early Hong Kong sea scene.