CONTENTS - The Colonial Clippers - 4

PART I. THE EMIGRANT SHIPS
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The Power of Gold		[1]
Steerage Conditions in 1844		[3]
Discovery of Gold in Australia		[5]
Melbourne and its Shipping in 1851-2		[6]
First Gold Cargoes Home		[10]
Great Rush to the Gold Regions in 1852		[11]
Maury’s Improvements on Old Route to the Colonies		[13]
Early Fast Passages Outward		[14]
Rules and Customs aboard the Eagle in 1853		[15]
Liverpool Shipowners in the Australian Trade		[22]
James Baines, of the Black Ball Line		[23]
The Marco Polo		[26]
Captain James Nicol Forbes		[29]
Marco Polo’s First Voyage to Australia		[32]
Marco Polo’s Second Voyage to Australia		[36]
After Life of Marco Polo		[40]
Most Notable Clippers of 1853		[41]
Ben Nevis		[42]
The Star of the East		[42]
The Miles Barton		[43]
The Guiding Star		[44]
The Indian Queen		[44]
The Famous Sovereign of the Seas		[48]
Best Outward Passages for 1853-4, Anchorage to Anchorage		[52]
1854—The Year of the Big Ships		[52]
Extraordinary 24-hour Runs		[57]
The Lightning		[60]
The Red Jacket		[62]
Race across the Atlantic between Lightning and Red Jacket		[63]
Red Jacket’s First Voyage to Australia		[66]
The Lightning’s First Voyage to Australia		[71]
Champion of the Seas		[73]
The James Baines		[77]
Record Voyage of James Baines to Australia		[81]
The Donald Mackay		[83]
Blue Jacket, White Star, and Shalimar		[85]
The Wreck of the Schomberg		[87]
Best Outward Passages—Liverpool to Melbourne, 1854-5		[90]
1855-1857—Captain Anthony Enright and the Lightning		[91]
Best Homeward Passages, 1855-6		[103]
Best Outward Passages, 1855-6, Liverpool to Melbourne		[104]
James Baines Overdue		[105]
James Baines, Champion of the Seas, and Lightning race out toIndia with Troops in the Time of the Mutiny		[110]
Burning of the James Baines		[112]
America Sells her Clippers to Great Britain		[113]
Notes on the Later American-built Passenger Ships		[114]
Black Ballers in the Queensland Emigrant Trade		[115]
Sunda and Empress of the Seas Carry Sheep to New Zealand		[115]
After Life and End of the Liverpool Emigrant Clippers		[116]
The Burning of the Lightning		[117]
Blue Jacket’s Figure-head		[118]
The Loss of the Fiery Star		[118]
Some Famous Coal Hulks		[120]
Loss of the Young Australia		[120]
The Fate of Marco Polo		[121]
PART II.—THE WOOL CLIPPERS
The Carriers of the Golden Fleece		[122]
The Aberdeen White Star Line		[129]
Wood and Composite Ships of the Aberdeen White Star Fleet		[131]
The Phoenician		[132]
The Lucky Nineveh		[134]
The Jerusalem		[134]
Captain Mark Breach’s First Encounter with his Owner		[136]
The Thermopylae		[137]
The Centurion		[137]
The Aviemore		[137]
The Fate of the Early White Star Clippers		[138]
Duthie’s Ships		[140]
Passages of Aberdeen Ships to Sydney, 1872-3		[142]
The South Australian Trade		[143]
The Orient Line		[146]
The Orient and Her Best Outward Passages		[148]
Orient nearly Destroyed by Fire		[149]
Orient Delivers her Carpenter’s Chest to the Lammermuir in Mid-Ocean		[151]
The Little Heather Bell		[152]
The Murray		[153]
The Orient Composite Clippers		[154]
Yatala		[155]
The Beltana, and Captain Richard Angel		[156]
The Wonderful Torrens		[157]
Torrens’ Outward Passages		[161]
The Great Sobraon		[163]
Messrs. Devitt & Moore		[176]
City of Adelaide and South Australian		[178]
The Speedy Little St. Vincent		[179]
Pekina and Hawkesbury		[180]
Mr. T. B. Walker		[180]
Walker’s Clipper Barques		[181]
The Beautiful Little Berean		[183]
Captain John Wyrill		[185]
The Berean’s Races		[187]
Berean as an Ice Carrier		[190]
Loss of the Corinth		[191]
The Little Ethel		[192]
The Hobart Barque Harriet McGregor		[192]
The Fremantle Barques Charlotte Padbury and Helena Mena		[193]
PART III.—THE IRON CLIPPERS
Introduction of Iron in Shipbuilding		[195]
The Ironsides, First Iron Sailing Ship		[200]
The Martaban		[200]
The Builders of the Iron Wool Clippers		[202]
The Darling Downs		[204]
City of Agra and Sam Mendel		[204]
Dharwar		[205]
Strange Career of the Antiope		[206]
Theophane		[208]
Messrs. Aitken & Lilburn, and the Loch Line of Glasgow		[208]
Clan Ranald, Ben Nevis and Loch Awe		[209]
Patriarch—First Iron Ship of Aberdeen White Star Line		[212]
Thomas Stephens		[214]
First Six Ships of the Loch Line		[219]
King’s Island—A Death Trap for Ships		[224]
Miltiades		[225]
Carmichael’s Superb Wool Clipper Mermerus		[227]
Devitt & Moore’s Collingwood		[230]
Hesperus and Aurora—The First Iron Ships of the Orient Line		[231]
Brassey Cadet Training Scheme		[232]
Ben Cruachan and Ben Voirlich		[235]
Samuel Plimsoll		[240]
Loch Maree—The Fastest of the Lochs		[245]
Tragedy of the Loch Ard		[247]
Devitt & Moore’s Crack Passenger Ship Rodney		[251]
Nichol’s Romanoff		[254]
Duthie’s Cairnbulg		[254]
The Speedy Thessalus		[255]
Passages to Australia in 1874		[257]
Loch Garry		[259]
Loch Vennachar		[262]
Salamis—An Iron Thermopylae		[265]
The Colonial Barque Woollahra		[270]
Cassiope and Parthenope		[270]
Trafalgar		[270]
Passages to Australia in 1875		[271]
Sir Walter Raleigh		[273]
Loch Fyne and Loch Long		[274]
Aristides—The Aberdeen White Star Flagship		[274]
Smyrna		[275]
Harbinger		[276]
Argonaut		[280]
Passages to Australia in 1876		[282]
Brilliant and Pericles		[282]
Loch Ryan		[284]
Loch Etive, of Captain William Stuart and Joseph Conrad fame		[284]
The Wreck of Loch Sloy		[286]
The Loss of Lochs Shiel and Sunart		[287]
Passages to Australia in 1877		[287]
Passages to Australia in 1878		[295]
Sophocles		[296]
Passages to Australia in 1879		[296]
Passages to Australia in 1880		[297]
Passages under 80 days to Sydney in 1881		[300]
Passages to Australia in 1881		[301]
The Big Illawarra		[301]
Orontes		[302]
Loch Torridon		[302]
Loch Torridon’s Voyages, 1892-1908		[316]
Port Jackson		[323]
Passages to Australia in 1882 and 1883		[324]
Derwent		[326]
Passages to Australia in 1884		[328]
Torridon and Yallaroi		[328]
Loch Carron and Loch Broom		[329]
Passages to Australia in 1885		[334]
Mount Stewart and Cromdale—The Last of the Wool Clippers		[335]
Perforated Sails		[337]
Hine’s Clipper Barques		[339]
Iron Barques of Walker and Trinder, Anderson		[341]
The Loss of Lanoma		[342]
Occasional Visitors in Australian Waters		[344]
PART IV.—THE NEW ZEALAND TRADE
The Mayflowers of New Zealand		[346]
Edwin Fox		[347]
Wild Duck		[347]
Shaw, Savill & Co.		[348]
Crusader		[349]
Helen Denny and Margaret Galbraith		[349]
End of Some of Shaw, Savill’s Earlier Ships		[350]
The Loss of the Cospatrick		[351]
The Loss of the Avalanche		[354]
Patrick Henderson’s Albion Shipping Company		[354]
Wild Deer		[355]
Peter Denny		[362]
Albion Shipping Company, 1869 Ships		[362]
Christian McCausland Loses her Wheel		[363]
Origin of the Albion House-flag		[365]
New Zealand Shipping Company		[365]
Otaki’s Record Passage Home		[369]
Turakina, ex-City of Perth		[370]
Robert Duncan’s Six Beautiful Sister Ships		[376]
Wellington and Captain Cowan		[380]
Wellington Collides with an Iceberg		[382]
Oamaru and Timaru		[383]
Marlborough, Hermione and Pleione		[384]
Taranaki, Lyttelton and Westland		[384]
Lutterworth and Lady Jocelyn		[385]
Outsiders in the New Zealand Trade		[386]
The Pretty Little Ben Venue		[387]
Hinemoa		[387]
APPENDIX.
Appendix	A—Extracts from Lightning Gazette, 1855-1857	[391]
„	B—Later American-built Passenger Ships to Australia	[410]
„	C—Iron Wool Clippers	[411]
„	D—Log of Ship Theophane, 1868—Maiden Passage	[414]
„	E—List of Clipper Ships Still Afloat and Trading at theOutbreak of War, August, 1914	[416]
„	F—The Wool Fleet, 1876-1890	[417]