These were two of the last of the wood and composite clippers, for by the early seventies every shipowner, however conservative, found himself compelled to go in for iron ships, if he was to compete successfully in the world’s freight market.
PART III.—“THE IRON CLIPPERS.”
Fill us with wool till we’re nigh overflowing,
Send us away when strong breezes are blowing,
And we’ll show all the others the road.
The tug boat is coming for us in the morn,
We’ll drive her like blazes from here to the Horn,