_Note._—As in my _China Clippers_, when using the word “mile” I always mean the sea mile of 6080 feet, not the land mile of 5280 feet.
Great Rush to the Gold Regions in 1852 11
Maury’s Improvements on Old Route to the Colonies 13
Rules and Customs aboard the _Eagle_ in 1853 15
Liverpool Shipowners in the Australian Trade 22
_Marco Polo’s_ First Voyage to Australia 32
_Marco Polo’s_ Second Voyage to Australia 36
Best Outward Passages for 1853-4, Anchorage to Anchorage 52
Race across the Atlantic between _Lightning_ and _Red Jacket_ 63
_Red Jacket’s_ First Voyage to Australia 66
The _Lightning’s_ First Voyage to Australia 71
Record Voyage of _James Baines_ to Australia 81
_Blue Jacket_, _White Star_, and _Shalimar_ 85
Best Outward Passages—Liverpool to Melbourne, 1854-5 90
1855-1857—Captain Anthony Enright and the _Lightning_ 91
Best Outward Passages, 1855-6, Liverpool to Melbourne 104
_James Baines_, _Champion of the Seas_, and _Lightning_ race out to India with Troops in the Time of the Mutiny 110
America Sells her Clippers to Great Britain 113
Notes on the Later American-built Passenger Ships 114
Black Ballers in the Queensland Emigrant Trade 115
_Sunda_ and _Empress of the Seas_ Carry Sheep to New Zealand 115
After Life and End of the Liverpool Emigrant Clippers 116
Wood and Composite Ships of the Aberdeen White Star Fleet 131
Captain Mark Breach’s First Encounter with his Owner 136
The Fate of the Early White Star Clippers 138
Passages of Aberdeen Ships to Sydney, 1872-3 142
The _Orient_ and Her Best Outward Passages 148
_Orient_ Delivers her Carpenter’s Chest to the _Lammermuir_ in Mid-Ocean 151
The _Beltana_, and Captain Richard Angel 156
_City of Adelaide_ and _South Australian_ 178
The Fremantle Barques _Charlotte Padbury_ and _Helena Mena_ 193
The _Ironsides_, First Iron Sailing Ship 200
The Builders of the Iron Wool Clippers 202
Messrs. Aitken & Lilburn, and the Loch Line of Glasgow 208
_Clan Ranald_, _Ben Nevis_ and _Loch Awe_ 209
_Patriarch_—First Iron Ship of Aberdeen White Star Line 212
Carmichael’s Superb Wool Clipper _Mermerus_ 227
_Hesperus_ and _Aurora_—The First Iron Ships of the Orient Line 231
_Loch Maree_—The Fastest of the Lochs 245
Devitt & Moore’s Crack Passenger Ship _Rodney_ 251