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Chapter VI: Appendix: Appendix A—Extracts from Lightning Gazette, 1855-1857 391

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„ 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.

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