Chapter III: Part II: The Wool Clippers

The Carriers of the Golden Fleece 122

The Aberdeen White Star Line 129

Wood and Composite Ships of the Aberdeen White Star Fleet 131

The _Phoenician_ 132

The Lucky _Nineveh_ 134

The _Jerusalem_ 134

Captain Mark Breach’s First Encounter with his Owner 136

The _Thermopylae_ 137

The _Centurion_ 137

The _Aviemore_ 137

The Fate of the Early White Star Clippers 138

Duthie’s Ships 140

Passages of Aberdeen Ships to Sydney, 1872-3 142

The South Australian Trade 143

The Orient Line 146

The _Orient_ and Her Best Outward Passages 148

_Orient_ nearly Destroyed by Fire 149

_Orient_ Delivers her Carpenter’s Chest to the _Lammermuir_
in Mid-Ocean 151

The Little _Heather Bell_ 152

The _Murray_ 153

The Orient Composite Clippers 154

_Yatala_ 155

The _Beltana_, and Captain Richard Angel 156

The Wonderful _Torrens_ 157

_Torrens’_ Outward Passages 161

The Great _Sobraon_ 163

Messrs. Devitt & Moore 176

_City of Adelaide_ and _South Australian_ 178

The Speedy Little _St. Vincent_ 179

_Pekina_ and _Hawkesbury_ 180

Mr. T. B. Walker 180

Walker’s Clipper Barques 181

The Beautiful Little _Berean_ 183

Captain John Wyrill 185

The _Berean’s_ Races 187

_Berean_ as an Ice Carrier 190

Loss of the _Corinth_ 191

The Little _Ethel_ 192

The Hobart Barque _Harriet McGregor_ 192

The Fremantle Barques _Charlotte Padbury_ and _Helena Mena_ 193