PART IV.—THE NEW ZEALAND TRADE
The _Mayflowers_ of New Zealand 346
_Edwin Fox_ 347
_Wild Duck_ 347
Shaw, Savill & Co. 348
_Crusader_ 349
_Helen Denny_ and _Margaret Galbraith_ 349
End of Some of Shaw, Savill’s Earlier Ships 350
The Loss of the _Cospatrick_ 351
The Loss of the _Avalanche_ 354
Patrick Henderson’s Albion Shipping Company 354
_Wild Deer_ 355
_Peter Denny_ 362
Albion Shipping Company, 1869 Ships 362
_Christian McCausland_ Loses her Wheel 363
Origin of the Albion House-flag 365
New Zealand Shipping Company 365
_Otaki’s_ Record Passage Home 369
_Turakina_, ex-_City of Perth_ 370
Robert Duncan’s Six Beautiful Sister Ships 376
_Wellington_ and Captain Cowan 380
_Wellington_ Collides with an Iceberg 382
_Oamaru_ and _Timaru_ 383
_Marlborough_, _Hermione_ and _Pleione_ 384
_Taranaki_, _Lyttelton_ and _Westland_ 384
_Lutterworth_ and _Lady Jocelyn_ 385
Outsiders in the New Zealand Trade 386
The Pretty Little _Ben Venue_ 387
_Hinemoa_ 387
APPENDIX.
Appendix A—Extracts from _Lightning Gazette_, 1855-1857 391
„ B—Later American-built Passenger Ships to Australia 410
„ C—Iron Wool Clippers 411
„ D—Log of Ship _Theophane_, 1868—Maiden Passage 414
„ E—List of Clipper Ships Still Afloat and Trading at the Outbreak of War, August, 1914 416
„ F—The Wool Fleet, 1876-1890 417
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
_Thomas Stephens_ 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
_Timaru_ 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.