Chapter IV: Part III: The Iron Clippers

Introduction of Iron in Shipbuilding 195

The _Ironsides_, First Iron Sailing Ship 200

The _Martaban_ 200

The Builders of the Iron Wool Clippers 202

The _Darling Downs_ 204

_City of Agra_ and _Sam Mendel_ 204

_Dharwar_ 205

Strange Career of the _Antiope_ 206

_Theophane_ 208

Messrs. Aitken & Lilburn, and the Loch Line of Glasgow 208

_Clan Ranald_, _Ben Nevis_ and _Loch Awe_ 209

_Patriarch_—First Iron Ship of Aberdeen White Star Line 212

_Thomas Stephens_ 214

First Six Ships of the Loch Line 219

King’s Island—A Death Trap for Ships 224

_Miltiades_ 225

Carmichael’s Superb Wool Clipper _Mermerus_ 227

Devitt & Moore’s _Collingwood_ 230

_Hesperus_ and _Aurora_—The First Iron Ships of the
Orient Line 231

Brassey Cadet Training Scheme 232

_Ben Cruachan_ and _Ben Voirlich_ 235

_Samuel Plimsoll_ 240

_Loch Maree_—The Fastest of the Lochs 245

Tragedy of the _Loch Ard_ 247

Devitt & Moore’s Crack Passenger Ship _Rodney_ 251

Nichol’s _Romanoff_ 254

Duthie’s _Cairnbulg_ 254

The Speedy _Thessalus_ 255

Passages to Australia in 1874 257

_Loch Garry_ 259

_Loch Vennachar_ 262

_Salamis_—An Iron _Thermopylae_ 265

The Colonial Barque _Woollahra_ 270

_Cassiope_ and _Parthenope_ 270

_Trafalgar_ 270

Passages to Australia in 1875 271

_Sir Walter Raleigh_ 273

_Loch Fyne_ and _Loch Long_ 274

_Aristides_—The Aberdeen White Star Flagship 274

_Smyrna_ 275

_Harbinger_ 276

_Argonaut_ 280

Passages to Australia in 1876 282

_Brilliant_ and _Pericles_ 282

_Loch Ryan_ 284

_Loch Etive_, of Captain William Stuart and Joseph
Conrad fame 284

The Wreck of _Loch Sloy_ 286

The Loss of Lochs _Shiel_ and _Sunart_ 287

Passages to Australia in 1877 287

Passages to Australia in 1878 295

_Sophocles_ 296

Passages to Australia in 1879 296

Passages to Australia in 1880 297

Passages under 80 days to Sydney in 1881 300

Passages to Australia in 1881 301

The Big _Illawarra_ 301

_Orontes_ 302

_Loch Torridon_ 302

_Loch Torridon’s_ Voyages, 1892-1908 316

_Port Jackson_ 323

Passages to Australia in 1882 and 1883 324

_Derwent_ 326

Passages to Australia in 1884 328

_Torridon_ and _Yallaroi_ 328

_Loch Carron_ and _Loch Broom_ 329

Passages to Australia in 1885 334

_Mount Stewart_ and _Cromdale_—The Last of the Wool Clippers 335

Perforated Sails 337

Hine’s Clipper Barques 339

Iron Barques of Walker and Trinder, Anderson 341

The Loss of _Lanoma_ 342

Occasional Visitors in Australian Waters 344