Captain Pattman took command of _Loch Torridon_ on her second voyage. Her maiden voyage was a very tragic one. She went out to Hobson’s Bay from Glasgow under Captain Pinder, arriving on 27th April, 1882, 105 days out. This gave no indication of her sailing capabilities, so she was not taken up to load wool but was sent across to Calcutta to load jute. She left Calcutta on 22nd August. On 9th October, when off the Cape, she ran into a heavy gale from W.N.W. Captain Pinder hove her to on the starboard tack under close-reefed main topsail. After a bit Captain Pinder wore her round on to the port tack, but with the squalls increasing she lay down to it, dipping her starboard rail. Thereupon Captain Pinder decided to wear her back on to the starboard tack. The mate besought him not to do this without setting the foresail, but unfortunately, having been lucky once, the captain insisted, with the result that when she got off before the wind she had not enough way on her and a tremendous sea came roaring over the stern and carried overboard the master, second mate, man at the wheel, sailmaker and a boy, all being drowned. The mate also was swept away but was saved by a hitch of the main brace getting round his leg. On the following day the weather moderated, and the mate brought the ship home to Plymouth, from whence she was towed up to London. CAPTAIN PATTMAN’S EARLY CAREER. +------+------------+-----------+----+----------+--------------------+ | | Ship | | | | | | Date | served in | Rig |Tons| Capacity | Remarks | +------+------------+-----------+----+----------+--------------------+ | 1864 |_Woodland_ |Schooner | 120|Boy |Southwold to Shields| | | _Lass_ | | | | and back. | | „ |_Hearts of_ |Billy boy | 105|Boy |Southwold to | | | _Oak_ | | | | Hartlepool. | | „ |_Advice_ |Barque | 397|Apprentice|Hartlepool to | | | | | | | Cronstad—Cronstad | | | | | | | to London. | | 1866 |_Hearts of_ |Billy boy | 105|Boy |Southwold to | | | _Oak_ | | | | Sunderland. | | „ |_Hubertus_ |Brig | 190|O.S. |Seaham to Boulogne, | | | | | | | London, Hamburg, | | | | | | | Dieppe and London.| | 1867 |_Kingdom of_|Barque | 427|O.S. |Sunderland to Aden, | | | _Italy_ | | | | Tuticorin, and | | | | | | | back to London. | | 1868 |_Callisto_ |Barque | 598|O.S. |London to Adelaide, | | | | | | | Newcastle, N.S.W. | | | | | | | and Shanghai.