_Golden Age_ was the ship which claimed to have run 22 knots in the hour with current to help her. The _Royal Dane_ was a well-known ship in the London River when she was commanded by Captain Bolt. She also was a big three-decker. The _Florence Nightingale_ was celebrated for her looks. [Illustration: “BLUE JACKET.”] [Illustration: “ROYAL DANE.”] A curious incident happened anent the _Mistress of the Seas_; a passenger brought an action against the ship because he was ducked during the ceremony of crossing the line and the captain was fined £100. The _Sunda_ was a very fine fast ship, and made some fine passages under the famous Bully Bragg. Black Ballers in the Queensland Emigrant Trade. Besides some smaller Nova Scotia built ships such as the _Conway_, _Wansfell_, _Utopia_ and _David MacIver_, some of the best of the later Black Ballers were engaged in the Queensland emigration trade in the late sixties and early seventies. The _Flying Cloud_ and the _Sunda_ once had a great race out to Moreton Bay, in which the _Sunda_ beat the _Flying Cloud_ by 18 miles in a 4-day run which averaged 16 knots; this was the voyage in which _Flying Cloud’s_ boat was capsized between Brisbane and the anchorage, the second mate and all in her being drowned. In 1870 I find the following passages to Queensland: _Young Australia_, Captain James Cooper, 241 passengers left London, 17th May—arrived Brisbane 25th August—100 days out. _Flying Cloud_, Captain Owen, 385 passengers left Liverpool, 4th June—arrived Hervey’s Bay 30th August—87 days out. _Royal Dane_, Captain D. R. Bolt, 497 passengers left London, 30th July—arrived Rockhampton 19th November—112 days out. “Sunda” and “Empress of the Seas” Carry Sheep to New Zealand. In the early days of the gold excitement, the emigrant ships rushed out and home, but in the sixties we find them making short intermediate passages; for instance, the _Sunda_ and _Empress of the Seas_ one year transported thousands of sheep from Australia to New Zealand, each ship making two trips between Port Phillip and Port Chalmers, with several thousands of sheep on board each trip. =The Gold Rush to Gabriel’s Gully in 1862.= In 1862 several ships were hurried across with diggers from Melbourne to Port Chalmers for the gold rush to Gabriel’s Gully. Money ran like water in Port Chalmers in those days, and as usual the gold miners were a pretty uproarious crowd. The _Lightning_, which was commanded at that date by Captain Tom Robertson, the marine painter, made a special trip with 900 diggers on board, and they gave Captain Robertson so much trouble that he put into the Bluff and landed a number of them there. The _Blue Jacket_, also, took a load of this troublesome cargo. After Life and End of the Liverpool Emigrant Clippers.