The _Sovereign of the Seas_ was sold to a Hamburg firm and was wrecked on the Pyramid Shoal in the Straits of Malacca, August 6, 1859, becoming a total loss. The _Contest_ and _Winged Racer_ were destroyed by the _Alabama_ off the coast of Java in 1863, and the _Jacob Bell_ by the _Florida_ during the same year. The _Harvey Birch_ was destroyed by the _Nashville_ in 1861. The _Flying Dutchman_ went ashore on the Brigantine Shoal, off the coast of New Jersey, during a thick snowstorm in February, 1858, and became a total loss. The _Highflyer_, under command of Captain Gordon B. Waterman, sailed from San Francisco, October 24, 1856, bound for Hong-kong and was never heard from. The _John Gilpin_ struck an iceberg off Cape Horn and foundered, January 29, 1858, while bound from Honolulu for New Bedford under command of Captain John F. Ropes, all hands, including fifteen passengers, being saved by the British ship _Herefordshire_. The _Phantom_ was lost on Prates Shoal, about two hundred miles east-southeast of Hong-kong, in 1862, while under command of Captain Henry Sargent. All hands were saved in the boats, which reached Hong-kong safely, and a large amount of treasure that she had on board was also saved. Captain Sargent received great credit for his brave and judicious action at the time of the wreck; for in those days the China Sea was filled with junks whose crews required only the sight of a vessel in distress to turn them into most barbarous pirates. Captain Sargent soon after took command of the clipper barque _Emily C. Starr_ and sailed from Shanghai for Yokohama. She was never heard from, and it was supposed that she foundered in a typhoon. Captain Sargent belonged to an old Boston family whose home was on Beacon Street. He had sailed with Captain Nickels in the _Flying Fish_ and had also commanded the ship _Rockland_. He was one of the youngest and most accomplished of all the American clipper ship captains. The _Bald Eagle_ and _Romance of the Seas_ both sailed from Hong-kong in 1860 and were never heard from. The _Reporter_ foundered off Cape Horn in 1863, and in the same year the _Undaunted_ was condemned at Rio Janeiro. The _Sweepstakes_ was condemned in Batavia in 1864. The _Great Republic_ was sold to the Merchants’ Trading Company, of Liverpool, in 1869 and her name was changed to the _Denmark_. She finally foundered in a hurricane off Bermuda in 1872. The _Morning Star_ was sold to a Liverpool firm, who renamed her the _Rockingham_; she foundered while on a voyage from Samarang for Falmouth in 1879. The _Ocean Telegraph_ was sold to an English firm and renamed the _Light Brigade_ and was finally condemned at Gibraltar and converted into a coal hulk.