The Fate of the Early White Star Clippers. The first _Centurion_ ended her days as a total loss in 1866. The _Walter Hood_ was wrecked near Jervis Bay Lighthouse, New South Wales, on 27th April, 1870, when bound from London to Sydney with general cargo, her captain and 12 men being drowned. The _Woolloomoolloo_ ended her days under the Spanish flag and was wrecked in 1885. The _Maid of Judah_ was sold to Cowlislaw Bros., of Sydney, in 1870. In December, 1879, she left Sydney for Shanghai, coal-laden, with Captain Webb in command, and the following June was condemned and broken up at Amoy. The _Omar Pasha_ was burnt at sea in 1869, when homeward bound from Brisbane, wool-laden. The celebrated _Star of Peace_, after being run for some years by Burns, Philp & Co., of Sydney, was converted into a hulk at Thursday Island, being only broken up in 1895. The _Wave of Life_ was sold to Brazil, and sailed as the _Ida_ until 1891, when she was renamed _Henriquita_. Finally she was condemned and broken up in March, 1897. The _Damascus_ was bought by the Norwegians, who changed her name to _Magnolia_. On 1st September, 1893, she stranded at Bersimis and became a total loss. The _Transatlantic_ was rebuilt in 1876; in 1878 she was owned by J. L. Ugland, of Arendal; and on 15th October, 1899, when bound to Stettin from Mobile, she foundered in the Atlantic. The _Moravian_ was sold to J. E. Ives, of Sydney, and ended her days as a hulk, being broken up at Sydney in March, 1895. The _Strathdon_, under the name of _Zwerver_, did many years’ service with the Peruvian flag at her gaff end. She was broken up in 1888. The _Queen of Nations_ was wrecked near Woolloagong, New South Wales, on 31st May, 1881, when bound out to Sydney. All hands were saved except one. The _Kosciusko_, like the _Maid of Judah_, was bought by Cowlislaw Bros., being broken up at Canton in 1899. The _Nineveh_ was bought by Goodlet & Smith, of Sydney. She was abandoned in the North Pacific in February, 1896. The _Ethiopian_ was sold to the Norwegians. In October, 1894, when bound from St. Thomas to Cork, she was abandoned near the Western Isles. She was afterwards picked up 15 miles from Fayal and towed into St. Michael’s, where she was condemned. The _George Thompson_ passed through the hands of A. Nicol & Co., of Aberdeen, and J. Banfield, of Sydney, to the Chileans. On 13th June, 1902, she was wrecked at Carlemapu. The _Christiana Thompson_ went to the Norwegians and was renamed _Beatrice Lines_. She was wrecked near Umra in Norway on 7th October, 1899. The _Harlaw_ was wrecked at Hongkong in 1878. The _Jerusalem_, like many of the others, was converted into a barque in her old age. In 1887 she was bought by the Norwegians. On 28th October, 1893, she left New Brunswick for London with a cargo of pitch-pine and resin and never arrived, the usual end of timber droghers on the stormy North Atlantic.