Running her easting down the _Loch Ness_ averaged 245 knots for 18 consecutive days, her best day’s work being just under 300 miles. Captain M. Heddle, who had previously commanded the _Loch Rannoch_, was in charge of the _Loch Ness_ and deserved great credit for this fine performance as a wind up to the old clipper’s career. The _Loch Ness_ was sold in Adelaide along with her sister ship, the _Loch Tay_, and the celebrated pair are ending their days together as coal hulks for the N.D.L. Co. at Adelaide. There was probably not much to choose between the two sister ships in point of speed, though _Loch Ness_ had slightly the better record. _Loch Tay_, however, had many fine runs to her credit. For many years she brought wool home from Geelong, her passages being most consistent and rarely being much over 90 days. The _Loch Earn_ became world-notorious by her fatal collision with the French Transatlantic mail steamer _Ville du Havre_. On 21st November, 1873, on a bright starlight night, the Loch liner struck the steamer right amidships, cutting her down to the water’s edge. The _Ville du Havre_ sank in 12 minutes, and Captain Robertson of the _Loch Earn_ was only able to save 26 of her passengers and 61 of the crew, 226 souls in all going down in the Frenchman. The following day the American packet ship _Tremountain_ was fallen in with, and Captain Robertson transferred the survivors to her and they were landed at Cardiff. Two days later the _Loch Earn_, being fatally injured by the collision, also sank, Captain Robertson and his crew being rescued by a passing ship. The _Loch Lomond_, which in her palmy days under Commander Grey, R.N.R., was known as the Scotch man-of-war owing to her smart appearance, was a steady going ship without any very special records to her credit. In May, 1908, she was sold to the Union S.S. Co. of New Zealand to be converted into a coal hulk. Loading a cargo of coal at Newcastle, N.S.W., she left there on 16th July, 1908, bound for Lyttelton, N.Z., under Captain J. Thomson. But time went by and she never arrived, and in due course she was posted as missing. The only trace of her that was ever found was a life-buoy which was picked up on the New Hebrides. The _Loch Leven_ came to a sudden end on her second voyage. On 22nd October, 1871, she left Geelong for London with 6523 bales of wool on board, valued at £154,000. Two days later she stranded on King’s Island and became a total loss. All her crew got ashore safely, but Captain Branscombe ventured back in a surf boat to rescue the ship’s papers. The boat capsized and the captain was drowned. King’s Island—A Death Trap for Ships.