ILLUSTRATIONS
Emigrant Fleet in Hobson’s Bay | [Frontispiece] |
|---|---|
Mr. James Baines | To face page [23] |
Marco Polo | [27] |
Plate of House-Flags | [32] |
Sovereign of the Seas | [48] |
Lightning | [60] |
Red Jacket | [63] |
James Baines | [77] |
Donald Mackay entering Port Phillip Heads | [83] |
White Star | [85] |
Blue Jacket | [114] |
Royal Dane | [114] |
Lightning on Fire at Geelong | [117] |
Light Brigade | [120] |
Young Australia | [120] |
Plate of House-Flags | [128] |
Orient, arriving at Gibraltar with Troops from the Crimea | [148] |
Pekina and Coonatto at Port Adelaide, 1867 | [154] |
John Duthie at Circular Quay, Sydney | [154] |
Torrens | [157] |
Torrens at Port Adelaide | [157] |
Sobraon | [163] |
City of Adelaide, David Bruce Commander, | [178] |
South Australian | [178] |
Captain John Wyrill, of Berean | [183] |
Berean | [183] |
Mr. Thomas Carmichael, of A. & J. Carmichael | [200] |
Darling Downs | [204] |
Antiope | [204] |
Antiope | [206] |
Theophane | [208] |
Dharwar | [208] |
Patriarch | [212] |
| [214] | |
Mermerus alongside | [225] |
Miltiades | [225] |
Hesperus | [230] |
Collingwood | [239] |
Samuel Plimsoll | [239] |
Rodney | [250] |
Loch Garry | [250] |
Thessalus | [254] |
Loch Vennachar | [262] |
Salamis | [266] |
Thomas Stephens, Cairnbulg, Brilliant and Cutty Sark,in Sydney Harbour | [266] |
Woollahra | [270] |
Aristides | [274] |
Harbinger | [276] |
Argonaut | [280] |
Pericles | [282] |
Mermerus in Victoria Dock, Melbourne, 1896 | [284] |
Brilliant | [284] |
Loch Etive | [286] |
Argonaut in the Clyde | [286] |
Cimba | [290] |
Sophocles | [296] |
Illawarra | [301] |
Captain Pattman | [301] |
Loch Torridon, with perforated Sails | [308] |
Loch Torridon | [318] |
Port Jackson | [323] |
Port Jackson in the Thames | [323] |
Derwent, off Gravesend | [327] |
Mount Stewart | [327] |
Torridon | [328] |
Mount Stewart | [335] |
Cromdale | [335] |
Brierholme | [340] |
Crusader | [352] |
Cospatrick | [352] |
Wild Deer | [355] |
Christian McCausland | [364] |
Piako | [364] |
Turakina, ex-City of Perth | [370] |
Otaki Becalmed | [370] |
Akaroa | [377] |
Invercargill, off Tairoa Heads | [377] |
| [382] | |
Wellington, at Picton, Queen Charlotte Sound | [382] |
Westland | [384] |
Taranaki | [384] |
Ben Venue | [386] |
Lady Jocelyn | [386] |
| PLANS. | |
Champion of the Seas | [73] |
Lightning | [73] |
Sail Plan of Ben Cruachan and Ben Voirlich | [234] |
Sail Plan of Loch Moidart and Loch Torridon | [304] |
THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS.
PART I.
THE EMIGRANT SHIPS.
Those splendid ships, each with her grace, her glory,
Her memory of old song or comrade’s story,
Still in my mind the image of life’s need,
Beauty in hardest action, beauty indeed.