Shaw, Savill & Co. 348 _Crusader_ 349 _Helen Denny_ and _Margaret Galbraith_ 349 End of Some of Shaw, Savill’s Earlier Ships 350 The Loss of the _Cospatrick_ 351 The Loss of the _Avalanche_ 354 Patrick Henderson’s Albion Shipping Company 354 _Wild Deer_ 355 _Peter Denny_ 362 Albion Shipping Company, 1869 Ships 362 _Christian McCausland_ Loses her Wheel 363 Origin of the Albion House-flag 365 New Zealand Shipping Company 365 _Otaki’s_ Record Passage Home 369 _Turakina_, ex-_City of Perth_ 370 Robert Duncan’s Six Beautiful Sister Ships 376 _Wellington_ and Captain Cowan 380 _Wellington_ Collides with an Iceberg 382 _Oamaru_ and _Timaru_ 383 _Marlborough_, _Hermione_ and _Pleione_ 384 _Taranaki_, _Lyttelton_ and _Westland_ 384 _Lutterworth_ and _Lady Jocelyn_ 385 Outsiders in the New Zealand Trade 386 The Pretty Little _Ben Venue_ 387 _Hinemoa_ 387 APPENDIX. Appendix A—Extracts from _Lightning Gazette_, 1855-1857 391 „ B—Later American-built Passenger Ships to Australia 410 „ C—Iron Wool Clippers 411 „ D—Log of Ship _Theophane_, 1868—Maiden Passage 414 „ E—List of Clipper Ships Still Afloat and Trading at the Outbreak of War, August, 1914 416 „ F—The Wool Fleet, 1876-1890 417 ILLUSTRATIONS Emigrant Fleet in Hobson’s Bay _Frontispiece_ Mr. James Baines _To face page_ 23 _Marco Polo_ 27 Plate of House-Flags 32 _Sovereign of the Seas_ 48 _Lightning_ 60 _Red Jacket_ 63 _James Baines_ 77 _Donald Mackay_ entering Port Phillip Heads 83 _White Star_ 85 _Blue Jacket_ 114