Chapter V: 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