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The Junk Keying (zh-cp|c=耆英|p=q??yīng, literally "Elder". English name is based on Cantonese (linguistics)|Cantonese pronunciation) was a Chinese junk (sailing)|junk which sailed from China around the Cape of Good Hope to the United States and England between 1846 and 1848. She is of particular interest, since she testifies to the power of Chinese shipping and shipbuilding at the time of the beginning of industrialization in the West. Keying had been purchased in August 1846 in secrecy by English businessmen, who braved a Chinese law prohibiting the sale of Chinese ships to foreigners. She was manned by 30 Chinese and 12 Englishmen, and commanded by the British captain Kellet during her travel.
Image:JunkKeyingView70.jpg|thumb|400px|”The Bay and Harbor of New York” by Samuel Waugh (1814-1885), depicting the Junk Keying moored in New York harbour in 1847 (watercolor on canvas, c. 1853-1855, Museum of the City of New York). Keying was the first ship from China to visit New York. She moored off the Battery Park (New York)|Battery on the southern tip of Manhattan in July 1847, and was received with great fanfare. The Cantonese crew of Keying were understandably angry as they only signed on for an eight 'month voyage to Singapore and Batavia. Twenty six of them left and at least some of them were 'exhibited' by P.T.Barnum on his version of Keying that he had built in Hoboken (he claimed he had it towed from China) She stayed several months in New York, and was visited by 4,000 tourists a day, who were paying 25 cents to board the ship and observe its design and crew. Keying also moored in Boston on November 18th 1847, by the Charles River Bridge, according to the Boston Evening Transcript of 1847. She was visited by many people, with as many as four to five thousand on Thanksgiving Day. Image:KeyingMedal.jpg|thumb|300px|The medal made for the arrival of the Junk Keying in England. The Junk visited England on March 1848, and a medal was made in honour of her arrival. The obverse of the medal gives the following account:
Image:KeyingIllustratedLondonNews.jpg|thumb|300px|Illustrated London News article, April 1, 1848. Image:KeyingFullArticle.jpg|thumb|150px|Illustrated London News, 1848, full article. The ship was praised by the English as excellent in sea-worthiness, and practically superior to their own:
A storm, occurring on February 28, wrecked her two boats, ripped the foresail, and disabled the rudder. During the repair of the ironwood rudder the second mate drowned. She was also fast, sailing between Boston and England in 21 days:
The Illustrated London News of July 29, 1848 described the visits to the Keying as follows:
Also in The Times:
The Keying was towed from London to the river Mersey by the steam tug Shannon, arriving May 14, 1853, anchored off Rock Ferry on the Cheshire shore. On September 29, 1853 the junk was preparing to leave for foreign ports in three weeks. It was dismantled "for research" by Redhead, Harling and Brown. Junk Keying may not have been quite the first Chinese sailship to round the Cape of Good Hope, since the Venetian monk and cartographer Fra Mauro describes in his 1457 Fra Mauro map the travels of a huge "junk from India" 2,000 miles (<!--Italian miles?-->3,000 km) into the Atlantic Ocean in 1420. That boat may have been part of the expeditions of Admiral Zheng He. Norman Brouwer, "New York's Unusual Chinese Visitor & the Junk Keying," Seaport Magazine 14, no. 2 (Summer 1980): 18-19.
Category:History of China category:History of Hong Kong Category:Ships of China This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Junk Keying".
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