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THE COLONIAL CLIPPERS

by Basil Lubbock

Published by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd.. 1975

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. TNew Edition. The Emigrant Ships, The Wool Clippers, The Iron Clippers and The New Zealand Trade. Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w illustrations and plans. 384 pages includes index.

Boards clean and bright. Text block just slightly browned & grubby. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and has a few closed edge-tears (no loss).

Stock no. 1827691

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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

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