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The Colonial Clippers
Basil Lubbock
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Colonial Clippers
Chapter 2
THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS
Dedication
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
James Baines, of the Black Ball Line.
The “Marco Polo.”
“Marco Polo’s” First Voyage to Australia.
The Famous “Sovereign of the Seas.”
The “Lightning.”
The “Red Jacket.”
The “Lightning’s” First Voyage to Australia.
Chapter 15
“Champion of the Seas.”
Record Voyage of “James Baines” to Australia.
The “Donald Mackay.”
St. Valentine’s Day.
Notes on the later American-built Passenger Ships.
Chapter 21
The Burning of “Lightning”.
Loss of the “Young Australia.”
Chapter 24
The Fate of “Marco Polo.”
Screwing Wool.
The “Orient.”
“Orient’s” Outward Passages.
The Orient Composite Clippers.
Chapter 30
The “Beltana,” and Captain Richard Angel.
Chapter 32
“Torrens’” Outward Passages.
Chapter 34
“City of Adelaide” and “South Australian.”
Chapter 36
The Beautiful Little “Berean.”
Chapter 38
The Fremantle Barques “Charlotte Padbury” and “Helena Mena.”
The “Martaban.”
“City of Agra” and “Sam Mendel.”
Chapter 42
The Strange Career of “Antiope.”
Messrs. Aitken & Lilburn and the Loch Line of Glasgow.
Chapter 45
The Famous “Patriarch”—First Iron Ship of the Aberdeen White Star Line.
The “Thomas Stephens.”
King’s Island—A Death Trap for Ships.
Chapter 49
“Hesperus” and “Aurora,” the First Iron Ships of the Orient Line.
The Brassey Cadet Training Scheme.
“Ben Cruachan” and “Ben Voirlich.”
Chapter 53
Notes on Passages to Australia in 1873.
Chapter 55
The Speedy “Thessalus.”
Chapter 57
“Loch Vennachar.”
Chapter 59
“Salamis”—an Iron “Thermopylae.”
Chapter 61
“Trafalgar.”
“Aristides”—The Aberdeen White Star Flagship.
The “Harbinger.”
Chapter 65
“Argonaut.”
“Brilliant” and “Pericles.”
“Loch Etive,” of Captain William Stuart and Joseph Conrad fame.
Chapter 69
The Wreck of “Loch Sloy.”
Chapter 71
“Cimba.”
Passages to Australia in 1879.
Notes on Passages to Australia in 1881.
Chapter 75
The “Loch Torridon.”
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
“Loch Torridon’s” Voyages, 1892-1908.
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
The “Derwent.”
Chapter 83
“Torridon” and “Yallaroi.”
Notes on Passages to Australia in 1885.
Chapter 86
Hine’s Clipper Barques.
Occasional Visitors in Australian Waters.
The Loss of the “Cospatrick.”
Chapter 90
The Loss of the “Avalanche.”
Chapter 92
The “Christian McCausland” Loses her Wheel.
Chapter 94
“Turakina” ex-“City of Perth.”
Chapter 96
Robert Duncan’s Six Beautiful Sister Ships.
Chapter 98
“Wellington” Collides with an Iceberg.
Chapter 100
“Taranaki,” “Lyttelton,” and “Westland.”
Chapter 102
Outsiders in the New Zealand Trade.
Chapter 104
“Hinemoa.”
APPENDIX A. Extracts from “Lightning Gazette,” 1855-1857.
Chapter 107
APPENDIX B.—Later American-built Passenger Ships to Australia.
APPENDIX C.—Iron Wool Clippers.
APPENDIX D. Log of Ship “Theophane,” 1868—Maiden Passage.
APPENDIX E. List of Clipper Ships still Afloat and Trading at the Outbreak of War, August, 1914.
APPENDIX F. The Wool Fleet, 1874-1890.
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
FOOTNOTES:
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Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200