Walker’s Clipper Barques 181 The Beautiful Little _Berean_ 183 Captain John Wyrill 185 The _Berean’s_ Races 187 _Berean_ as an Ice Carrier 190 Loss of the _Corinth_ 191 The Little _Ethel_ 192 The Hobart Barque _Harriet McGregor_ 192 The Fremantle Barques _Charlotte Padbury_ and _Helena Mena_ 193 PART III.—THE IRON CLIPPERS Introduction of Iron in Shipbuilding 195 The _Ironsides_, First Iron Sailing Ship 200 The _Martaban_ 200 The Builders of the Iron Wool Clippers 202 The _Darling Downs_ 204 _City of Agra_ and _Sam Mendel_ 204 _Dharwar_ 205 Strange Career of the _Antiope_ 206 _Theophane_ 208 Messrs. Aitken & Lilburn, and the Loch Line of Glasgow 208 _Clan Ranald_, _Ben Nevis_ and _Loch Awe_ 209 _Patriarch_—First Iron Ship of Aberdeen White Star Line 212 _Thomas Stephens_ 214 First Six Ships of the Loch Line 219 King’s Island—A Death Trap for Ships 224 _Miltiades_ 225 Carmichael’s Superb Wool Clipper _Mermerus_ 227 Devitt & Moore’s _Collingwood_ 230 _Hesperus_ and _Aurora_—The First Iron Ships of the Orient Line 231 Brassey Cadet Training Scheme 232 _Ben Cruachan_ and _Ben Voirlich_ 235 _Samuel Plimsoll_ 240 _Loch Maree_—The Fastest of the Lochs 245 Tragedy of the _Loch Ard_ 247 Devitt & Moore’s Crack Passenger Ship _Rodney_ 251 Nichol’s _Romanoff_ 254 Duthie’s _Cairnbulg_ 254 The Speedy _Thessalus_ 255 Passages to Australia in 1874 257 _Loch Garry_ 259 _Loch Vennachar_ 262 _Salamis_—An Iron _Thermopylae_ 265 The Colonial Barque _Woollahra_ 270