The Colonial Clippers

by Basil Lubbock

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APPENDIX E.
List of Clipper Ships still Afloat and Trading at the Outbreak of War, August, 1914.

Date Built	Original Name	Present Name if changed	Present Nationality of Owners	Yrs Old
1864	Glenlora		Norwegian	50
1866	Antiope		Australian	48
1868	Turakina	Elida	Norwegian	46
1868	Decapolis	Nostra Madre	Italian	46
1868	Ivanhoe		Chilean	46
1869	Cutty Sark	Ferreira	Portuguese	45
1869	Thomas Stephens	Pero d’Alemguer	Portuguese	45
1869	Otago	Emilia	Portuguese	45
1869	Loch Awe	Madura	Norwegian	45
1869	Hudson		Norwegian	45
1870	Lothair		Peruvian	44
1870	Aviemore		Norwegian	44
1872	Collingwood		Norwegian	42
1873	Hesperus	Grand Duchess Marie Nikolaevna	Russian	41
1873	Rakaia		Barbadian	41
1874	Nelson		Chilean	40
1874	Waikato	Coronada	American	40
1874	Canterbury		Norwegian	40
1874	Romanoff		Norwegian	40
1874	Charlotte Padbury		Norwegian	40
1875	Trafalgar		Norwegian	39
1875	Maulesden	Ostend	Italian	39
1875	Hurunui	Hermes	Finnish	39
1875	Myrtle Holme	Glimt	Norwegian	39
1875	Castle Holme	Ester	Norwegian	39
1876	Argonaut	Argo	Portuguese	38
1876	Pleione		Norwegian	38
1876	Opawa	Aquila	Norwegian	38
1877	Taranaki		Italian	37
1877	Pericles		Norwegian	37
1877	Wanganui	Blenheim	Norwegian	37
1877	Loch Ryan	John Murray	Australian	37
1878	Cimba		Norwegian	36
1879	Sophocles		Italian	35
1881	Loch Torridon		Finnish	33
1882	Port Jackson		British	32
1884	Derwent		Norwegian	30
1885	Torridon		Italian	29
1885	Loch Broom	Sogndal	Norwegian	27
1885	Loch Carron	Seileren	Norwegian	27
1885	Strathdon	Gers	French	27
1890	Hinemoa		British	24
1891	Mount Stewart		British	23

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APPENDIX F.
The Wool Fleet, 1874-1890.

Four Best Wool Passages, 1874-1890—Port to Port.

Ship	Best Four Passages	Total Number of Days	Average Number of Days	Total Number of Passages
Cutty Sark	72, 73, 72, 76	293	73¼	7
Thermopylae	75, 79, 79, 79	312	78	10
Mermerus	78, 80, 81, 84	323	80¾	15
Salamis	77, 83, 84, 85	329	82¼	13

Cutty Sark’s passages are far superior to those of any other ship; in fact, if we take the average of all her wool passages between 1874 and 1890, it only comes to 77 days from port to port.