In 1873 the _Orient_ was just about to leave London for Adelaide, when old John Willis, with his frock-coat flying open and his white hat on the back of his head, came aboard and said to Captain Mitchell: “The carpenter of my _Lammermuir_ has left his tool chest and tools behind; will you take them out to Adelaide and deliver them to him.” “No,” replied Captain Mitchell, who was a skipper of the good old sort, “but I will take them and deliver them before I reach the line.” The _Lammermuir_ had sailed some 10 days before on the 12th of September to be exact. Old John Willis immediately offered to bet Captain Mitchell £5 that he would not be as good as his word. The bet was accepted and the _Orient_ sailed on 28th September. In 5° N. a ship was sighted ahead and overhauled. It turned out to be the _Lammermuir_. Signals were exchanged, and a boat put over with the chest on board, and the _Lammermuir’s_ carpenter duly received his tools as Captain Mitchell had promised. The two ships then parted company and the _Orient_ eventually arrived at Adelaide on the 16th December, 79 days out, the _Lammermuir_ arriving six days later. It was a great triumph, and the apprentices of the _Orient_ composed a pumping chanty to the tune of “Marching through Georgia” to commemorate it, the first verse of which ran as follows:— The _Lammermuir_ left London, boys, A fortnight’s start she’d got, She was bound to Adelaide, Her passage to be short, But the _Orient_ overhauled her Before halfway she’d got As we were sailing to Australia. In 1879 the _Orient_ was sold to Cox Bros., of Waterford, and she was still afloat quite recently as a coal hulk at Gibraltar. The Little “Heather Bell.” In 1855 Hall, of Aberdeen, built the little _Heather Bell_ for Brown & Co., from whom the Orient Line bought her. Her measurements were:— Registered tonnage 479 tons. Length 155 feet. Beam 28.5 „ Depth 17.5 „