# 19. “The EMPRESS OF CHINA, Departing New York, February 22, 1784”
	The American Revolution had ended and with the coming of peace, Robert Morris and a few other daring entrepreneurs, pooled their resources to send the first American ship to China. They named her THE EMPRESS OF CHINA, and she had been designed by John Peck of Boston as a fast privateer. She was 360 tons, 104.2 feet in length, 28.4 feet in beam, with a 16 foot draft. Loaded primarily with American ginseng root which was known for its medicinal value to the Chinese because of its human shape, the EMPRESS sailed from New York’s just thawed harbor on February 22, 1774, past the fort at the tip of Manhattan with great crowds cheering her out as she dropped down the Hudson River to the open sea.
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