The Hobart Barque “Harriet McGregor.”
A still smaller ship than the Ethel in the Tasmanian trade was the smart little Harriet McGregor, which had the “round the world” race with Berean. A. McGregor who built her was also her owner.
She was built at Hobart in 1871, and measured:—
| Registered tonnage | 331 | tons. |
| Length | 134.2 | feet. |
| Beam | 27.6 | „ |
| Depth | 15.9 | „ |
This little ship for year after year did the following annual round with the regularity of a clock. On Christmas day she left Hobart for London, loaded with wool and sperm oil. She returned to Hobart from London with general cargo at 40s. and often more. Then she ran across to Mauritius from Hobart with coal, and returned with a cargo of sugar, in time to get away on her usual sailing day for London.
The Fremantle Barques “Charlotte Padbury” and “Helena Mena.”
In the early days the Fremantle wool trade, including that of the Ashburton River and Sharks Bay, was all carried in the holds of fast clipper barques, such as Walker’s Westbury, Decapolis and Corinth, and well worthy to be ranked with these were the Charlotte Padbury and Helena Mena, both of which were well known and much admired in the London River for many years.
The Charlotte Padbury was a wood barque of 640 tons, she was built at Falmouth in 1874 for W. Padbury, of Fremantle.
The Helena Mena was a composite barque of 673 tons, and was built by Thomson, of Sunderland, in 1876, for J. Wilson, of London.
The Charlotte Padbury was wrecked in April, 1903, and the Helena Mena was sold to the French for £1275 in 1898.