1892. April _Cromdale_ encountered ice 1000 feet high in 46° S. 36° W. May _Strathdon_ encountered ice 1000 feet high in 45 S. 25 W. June _County of_ _Edinbro_ encountered ice 900 feet high in 45 S. 37 W. Sept. _Loch Eck_ encountered ice 1000 feet high in 44 S. 2 W. Oct. _Curzon_ encountered ice 1000 feet high in 44 S. 31 W. Oct. _Liverpool_ encountered ice 800 feet high in 55 S. 94 W. 1893. Jan. _Loch_ _Torridon_ encountered ice 1500 feet high in 51° S. 46° W. Feb. _Cutty Sark_ encountered ice 1000 feet high in 50 S. 43 W. Mar. _Turakina_ encountered ice 1200 feet high in 51 S. 47 W. April _Brier Holme_ encountered ice 1000 feet high in 49 S. 51 W. May _Charles_ _Racine_ encountered ice 1000 feet high in 50 S. 52 W. The _Cromdale_ had a very exciting experience, and Captain E. H. Andrew wrote the following account to the secretary of the London Shipmasters’ Society:— We left Sydney on 1st March, and having run our easting down on the parallel of 49° to 50° S., rounded the Horn on 30th March without having seen ice, the average temperature of the water being 43° during the whole run across. At midnight on 1st April in 56° S., 58° 32′ W., the temperature fell to 37½°, this being the lowest for the voyage, but no ice was seen though there was a suspicious glare to the southward. At 4 a.m. on 6th April in 46° S., 36° W., a large berg was reported right ahead, just giving us time to clear it. At 4.30 with the first signs of daybreak, several could be distinctly seen to windward, the wind being N.W. and the ship steering N.E. about 9 knots. At daylight, 5.20 a.m., the whole horizon to windward was a complete mass of bergs of enormous size, with an unbroken wall at the back; there were also many to leeward. I now called all hands, and after reducing speed to 7 knots sent the hands to their stations and stood on. At 7 a.m. there was a wall extending from a point on the lee bow to about 4 points on the lee quarter, and at 7.30 both walls joined ahead. I sent the chief mate aloft with a pair of glasses to find a passage out, but he reported from the topgallant yard that the ice was unbroken ahead. Finding myself embayed and closely beset with innumerable bergs of all shapes, I decided to tack and try and get out the way I had come into the bay. The cliffs were now truly grand, rising up 300 feet on either side of us, and as square and true at the edge as if just out of a joiner’s shop, with the sea breaking right over the southern cliff and whirling away in a cloud of spray. Tacked ship at 7.30 finding the utmost difficulty in keeping clear of the huge pieces strewn so thickly in the water and having on several occasions to scrape her along one to keep clear of the next.