One may well ask what became of all the splendid clipper ships? The fate of some of them has already been told in these pages, others have disappeared from one cause or another, as time went on, until now scarcely one is left. During the Civil War many of them were sold and sailed under foreign flags, their names were changed and their identity all but lost. Of the more famous early clippers, the _Houqua_ foundered in a typhoon in the China seas in 1865 while under command of Captain McKenzie. The _Sea Witch_ made her last voyage to San Francisco in 1852 and then returned to the China trade for which she had been built. On her voyage to China in 1855 Captain Fraser was murdered at sea by his chief mate, and the vessel put into Rio Janeiro, where Captain Lang took command. On the homeward voyage from Amoy to Havana with a cargo of coolies, the _Sea Witch_ was wrecked and became a total loss on the eastern coast of Cuba, March 26, 1856. The _Samuel Russell_ was wrecked in the Gaspar Straits in 1870, under command of Captain Frederick Lucas. The _Stag-Hound_ was burnt off the coast of Brazil in 1863, her United States ensign, which the captain brought off and returned to the owners in Boston, being the sole relic. The _Surprise_, under command of Captain Charles Ranlett, struck a sunken rock while beating into Yokohama Bay and became a total wreck, February 4, 1876; the _Game-Cock_ was condemned at the Cape of Good Hope in 1880. The _Staffordshire_ was lost off Cape Sable, while bound from Liverpool for Boston in December, 1854. She struck on a ledge during a thick fog and foundered in deep water. Two days before her wreck Captain Richardson had fallen on deck and fractured his spine, and while he lay helpless in his berth, Joseph Alden, his chief mate, reported that the ship was sinking. Captain Richardson gave directions to the mate for saving the women and children passengers, but declined assistance for himself. His last words were: “God’s will be done,” and as the vessel settled deeper and deeper in the water and the waves closed in upon her deck, the brave spirit of her captain returned to God who gave it, to join the innumerable host of heroes and martyrs of the sea. The _Flying Cloud_ was sold to James Baines in 1863 and was destroyed by fire at St. John, N. B., in 1874. The _Flying Fish_ was wrecked in November, 1858, while coming out of Foo-chow, bound for New York with a cargo of tea, and was abandoned to the underwriters, who sold her to a Spanish merchant of Manila. She was subsequently floated and rebuilt at Wampoa, her name being changed to _El Bueno Suceso_. She sailed for some years between Manila and Cadiz, and finally foundered in the China Sea. The _Typhoon_ was sold to the United States Government during the Civil War, and was finally broken up. The _Northern Light_ was abandoned at sea, December 25, 1861, after being in collision while bound from Havre for New York.