Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• PART I - THE EMIGRANT SHIPS
• The Power of Gold
• Steerage Conditions in 1844
• Discovery of Gold in Australia
• Melbourne and its Shipping in 1851-2
• First Gold Cargoes Home
• Great Rush to the Gold Regions in 1852
• Maury's Improvements on Old Route to the Colonies
• Early Fast Passages Outward
• Rules and Customs aboard the Eagle in 1853
• Liverpool Shipowners in the Australian Trade
• James Baines of the Black Ball Line
• The Marco Polo
• Captain James Nicol Forbes
• Marco Polo's First Voyage to Australia
• Marco Polo's Second Voyage to Australia
• After Life of Marco Polo
• Most Notable Clippers of 1853
• Ben Nevis
• The Star of the East
• The Miles Barton
• The Guiding Star
• The Indian Queen
• The Famous Sovereign of the Seas
• Best Outward Passages for 1853-4, Anchorage to Anchorage
• 1854 - The Year of the Big Ships
• Extraordinary 24-hour Runs
• The Lightning
• The Red Jacket
• Race Across the Atlantic between Lightning and Red Jacket
• Red Jacket's First Voyage to Australia
• The Lightning's First Voyage to Australia
• Champion of the Seas
• The James Baines
• Record Voyage of James Baines to Australia
• The Donal Mackay
• Blue Jacket, White Star, and Shalimar
• The Wreck of the Schomberg
• Best Outward Passages - Liverpool to Melbourne, 1854-5
• 1855-1857 - Captain Anthony Enright and the Lightning
• Best Homeward Passages, 1855-6
• Best Outward Passages, 1855-6, Liverpool to Melbourne
• James Baines Overdue
• James Baines, Champion of the Seas, and Lightning race out to India with Troops in the Time of the Mutiny
• Burning of the James Baines
• America Sells her Clippers to Great Britain
• Notes on the Later American-built Passenger Ships
• Black Ballers in the Queensland Emigrant Trade
• Sunda and Empress of the Seas Carry Sheep to New Zealand
• After-Life and End of the Liverpool Emigrant Clippers
• The Burning of Lightning
• Blue Jacket's Figure-head
• The Loss of the Fiery Star
• Some Famous Coal Hulks
• Loss of the Young Australia
• The Fate of Marco Polo
• PART II - THE WOOL CLIPPERS
• The Carriers of the Golden Fleece
• The Aberdeen White Star Line
• Wood and Composite Ships of the Aberdeen White Star Fleet
• The Phoenician
• The Lucky Nineveh
• The Jerusalem
• Captain Mark Breach's First Encounter with his Owner
• The Thermopylae
• The Centurion
• The Aviemore
• The Fate of the Early White Star Clippers
• Duthie's Ships
• Passages of Aberdeen Ships to Sydney, 1872-3
• The South Australian Trade
• The Orient Line
• The Orient and Her Best Outward Passages
• Orient nearly Destroyed by Fire
• Orient Delivers her Carpenter's Chest to the Lammermuir in Mid-Ocean
• The Little Heather Bell
• The Murray
• The Orient Composite Clippers
• Yatala
• The Beltana and Captain Richard Angel
• The Wonderful Torrens
• Torrens' Outward Passages
• The Great Sobraon
• Messrs. Devitt & Moore
• City of Adelaide and South Australian
• The Speedy Little St. Vincent
• Pekina and Hawesbury
• Mr. T.B. Walker
• Walker's Clipper Barques
• The Beautiful LIttle Berean
• Captain John Wyrill
• The Berean's Races
• Berean as an Ice Carrier
• Loss of the Corinth
• The Little Ethel
• The Hobart Barque Harriet McGregor
• The Fremantle Barques Charlotte Padbury and Helena Mena
• PART III - THE IRON CLIPPERS
• Introduction of Iron in Shipbuilding
• The Ironsides, First Iron Sailing Ship
• The Martaban
• The Builders of the Iron Wool Clippers
• The Darling Downs
• City of Agra and Sam Mendel
• Dharwar
• Strange Career of the Antiope
• Therophane
• Messrs. Aiken & Lilburn and the Loch Line of Glasgow
• Clan Ranald, Ben Nevis and Loch Awe
• Patriarch - First Iron Ship of Aberdeen White Star Line
• Thomas Stephens
• First Six Ships of the Loch Line
• King's Island - A Death Trap for Ships
• Militades
• Carmichael's Superb Wool Clipper Mermerus
• Devitt & Moore's Collingwood
• Hesperus and Aurora - The First Iron Ships of the Orient Line
• Brassey Cadet Training Scheme
• Ben Cruachlan and Ben Voirlich
• Samuel Plimsoll
• Loch Maree - The Fastest of the Lochs
• Tragedy of the Loch Ard
• Devitt & Moore's Crack Passenger Ship Rodney
• Nicol's Romanoff
• Duthie's Cairnbulg
• The Speedy Thessalus
• Passages to Australia in 1874
• Loch Garry
• Loch Vennachar
• Salamis - An Iron Thermopylae
• The Colonial Barque Woollahra
• Cassiope and Parthenope
• Trafalgar
• Passages to Australia in 1875
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Loch Fyne and Loch Long
• Aristides - The Aberdeen White Star Flagship
• Smyrna
• Harbinger
• Argonaut
• Passages to Australis in 1876
• Brilliant and Pericles
• Loch Ryan
• Loch Etive, of Captain William Stuart and Joseph Conrad fame
• The Wreck of Loch Sloy
• The Loss of Loch Shiel and Loch Sunart
• Passages to Australia in 1877
• Cimba
• Passages to Australia in 1878
• Sophocles
• Passages to Australia in 1879
• Passages to Australia in 1880
• Passages under 80 days to Sydney in 1881
• Passages to Australia in 1881
• The Big Illawarra
• Orontes
• Loch Torridon
• Loch Torridon's Voyages, 1892-1908
• Pert Jackson
• Passages to Australia in 1882 and 1883
• Derwent
• Passages to Australia in 1884
• Torridon and Yallaroi
• Loch Carron and Loch Broom
• Passages to Australia in 1885
• Mount Stewart and Cromdale - The Last of the Wool Clippers
• Perforated Sails
• Hine's Clipper Barques
• Iron Barques of Walker and Trinder, Anderson
• The Loss of Lanoma
• Occasional Visitors in Australian Waters
• PART IV - THE NEW ZEALAND TRADE
• The Mayflowers of New Zealand
• Edwin Fox
• Wild Duck
• Shaw, Savill & Co.
• Crusader
• Helen Denny and Margaret Galbraith
• End of Some of Shaw, Savill's Earlier Ships
• The Loss of the Cospatrick
• The Loss of the Avalanche
• Patrick Henderson's Albion Shipping Company
• Wild Deer
• Peter Denny
• Albion Shipping Company, 1869 Ships
• Christian McCausland Loses her Wheel
• Origin of the Albion House Flag
• New Zealand Shipping Company
• Otaki's Record Passage Home
• Turkina, ex-City of Perth
• Robert Duncan's Six Beautiful Sister Ships
• Wellington and Captain Cowan
• Wellington Collides with an Iceberg
• Oamaru and Timaru
• Marlborough, Hermoine and Pleione
• Taranaki, Lyttelton and Westland
• Lutterworth and Lady Jocelyn
• Outsiders in the New Zealand Trade
• The Pretty Little Ben Venue
• Hinemoa
• Appendix A - Extracts from Lightning Gazette, 1855-1857
• Appendix B - Later American-built Passanger Ships to Australia
• Appendix C - Iron Wool Clippers
• Appendix D - Log of Ship Theophane, 1863 - Maiden Passage
• Appendix E - List of Clipper Ships Still Afloat and Trading at the Outbreak of War, August 1914
• Appendix F - The Wool Fleet, 1876-1890