_Cutty Sark_ had a fine weather passage to the Cape, but she scared her crew running the easting down. On one occasion she was pooped by a big sea which jammed the helmsmen in the wheel, and she came up in the wind and swept her decks clean, taking the boats off the after skids, breaking in one side of the monkey poop and gutting the cabin. At the change of the watch at midnight that night, the apprentice keeping the time, in order to call his mates, had to go up the mizen rigging and come down the stay to get to the apprentices’ house her decks were so full of water; for three or four days after this she ran like a scared hare before a mountainous sea, which rose up so high astern that it took the wind out of her topsails when she was in the trough. Captains Bully Martin and Douglas of the two Bens changed ships this year, and Douglas in the _Ben Cruachan_ arrived Melbourne on 5th June, 90 days out, whilst Martin in the _Ben Voirlich_ arrived Melbourne on 10th August, 88 days out. “Torridon” and “Yallaroi.” The last of Nicol’s clippers were the _Torridon_ and _Yallaroi._ They were skysail-yarders, and lying in dock alongside the modern four-poster, looked the real thing, a pair of dainty little thoroughbreds. [Illustration: “TORRIDON.” _Photo by Captain Schutze, Sydney._] Compared to most ships of their size, they had narrow sail plans, and with greater carrying power, they were not as fast as _Cimba_ or _Romanoff_. For some reason Nicol gave up the green and gold colours of Aberdeen and gave them the conventional painted ports. No doubt the days were passed when crowds of landsmen thronged Circular Quay of a Sunday and gaped in awe, reverence and admiration at the tall green clippers. Captain Shepherd left _Romanoff_ to take the _Torridon_, but he could only manage to get her out to Sydney in 90 days from Deal on her maiden trip, and _Yallaroi_ took 99 from Grangemouth. However, both ships held on in the Sydney trade until 1906, when they were sold to the Italians, _Torridon_ for £4250 and _Yallaroi_ for £4400. _Torridon_ was sunk by a German submarine on 27th August, 1916, but _Yallaroi_ disguised as _Santa Catarina_ is still sailing the seas. “Loch Carron” and “Loch Broom.” The last ships to be built for the famous Loch Line were the two fine four-mast barques _Loch Carron_ and _Loch Broom_. The _Loch Carron_ was taken from the stocks by Captain Stainton Clarke, one of the best known skippers in the Australian trade and the bosom friend of Captain Pattman, the pair being known in the ports they frequented as the “Corsican Brothers.” Captain Clarke was brought up in those beautiful little tea clippers, Skinner’s “Castles.” At the age of 28 he became master of the _Douglas Castle_, which he used to say was “one of the prettiest models that ever sailed.” When she was sold he was given the _Lennox Castle_, and he left her to take the _Loch Carron_.