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Medal commemorating Mandarin Hesing and the Chinese junk 'Keying'
Medal commemorating Mandarin Hesing (Xi Sheng) and the Chinese junk 'Keying'. Xi Sheng is likely to have been a merchant not a mandarin. Obverse: Portrait of the mandarin, a character each side and legend: 'MANDARIN HESING OF THE CHINESE JUNK'. Reverse: Inscription, 'THE FIRST JUNK THAT EVER ROUNDED THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, OR APPEARED IN BRITISH WATERS HER DIMENSIONS ARE LENGTH 160FT. DEPTH OF HOLD: 19FT BURDEN; 800 TONS CHINESE MEASUREMENT. RUDDER 7 1/2 TONS, MAINSAIL 9 TONS, MAINMAST 85FT LONG FROM DECK THE SHIP IS BUILT OF TEAK WOOD; SHE SAILED FROM HONG KONG 6TH DECEMBER 1846, ARRIVED IN ENGLAND 27TH MARCH 1848 477 DAYS FROM CANTON 'CAPTAIN KELLETT', COMMANDER.'
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Object Details
| ID: | MEC1349 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Halliday, Thomas |
| Events: | Voyage from China to England of the Keying, 1846-1848 |
| Vessels: | Keying 1846 [Chinese] |
| Date made: | 1848 |
| People: | Sheng, Xi; Halliday, Thomas |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 45 mm |