Carmichael’s Argus and Argo, the former with a 76-day run to Melbourne and the latter with a 78-day run to Sydney.
Cuthbert’s Ballochmyle, Skinner’s Brodick Castle, Beazley’s John o’ Gaunt, Patton’s Hesperides, Alexander’s Glengarry, Bowring’s Othello and Desdemona, and my old ship the Commonwealth.
Then coming to the later days of the four-poster, there were McMillan’s Swanhilda, which in 1894 made the wonderful run of 66 days from Wallaroo to Queenstown; Mahon’s Oweenee, which as late as 1913 made the run from Dublin to Newcastle, N.S.W., in 73 days; Troop’s Howard D. Troop, which in 1906 brought 3500 tons of wheat from Sydney to Falmouth in 82 days; that extraordinary four-mast ship, the Lancing, which in 1908 ran from Christiania to Melbourne in 75 days; Mackay’s Wendur, the rival of Loch Torridon; the beautiful skysail yarder Queen Margaret; Carmichael’s Glaucus; and the Lord Brassey, which went missing on her first voyage, after having made a fine outward passage of 77 days to Melbourne in 1892.
PART IV.—THE NEW ZEALAND TRADE.
The age of dear tradition has gone by
And steam has killed romance upon the sea,
The newer age requires the newer men,
And dying hard in corners of the world,