As soon as the boats had left, Mr. Sargeant renewed every effort to subdue the fire, and at the same time altered his course to get into the track of other ships. Then for 21 days he and his gallant band fought the flames and the numerous gales of those regions. Finally on 11th May, when the foremast was almost burnt through and tottering, a ship called the _Dauntless_ hove in sight and took the mate and his worn-out crew off the doomed _Fiery Star_. For their gallantry in remaining behind, Mr. Sargeant and his men were presented with £160 by the people of Auckland, New Zealand, and right well they deserved it, for in all the glorious history of our Mercantile Marine fewer brave acts have ever been recorded. Some Famous Coal Hulks. Many an old Black Baller ended her days as a coal hulk. Even the winter North Atlantic could not down the _Red Jacket_ and _Donald Mackay_, and eventually _Red Jacket_ went to Cape Verde and _Donald Mackay_ to Madeira as coal hulks. How many of the Union-Castle passengers knew, when they cast their eyes pityingly or perhaps disdainfully on the grimy looking hulk floating a cable’s length or so away from their spotless liner, that they were looking upon a crack passenger ship of their grandfather’s day. _Light Brigade_ was a coal hulk at Gibraltar for many years, having as a companion the famous _Three Brothers_. The _Golden South_, after lying in Kerosene Bay, Port Jackson, for about twenty years with her holds full of coal, was burnt through sparks from the old reformatory ship _Vernon_ falling upon her decks. The burning of the two ships lit up the hills for miles round, and many an old time Sydney-sider will remember the spectacle. Loss of the “Young Australia.” The _Young Australia_, after ten years’ successful trading between England and Brisbane, was wrecked on the north point of Moreton Island on 31st May, 1872, when homeward bound, just four and a half hours after leaving her anchorage off the pilot station. Whilst the ship was in the act of going about, the wind fell calm and the heavy easterly swell and southerly current set the ship towards the rocks. The anchor was let go too late, and the heavy swell hove the ship broadside on to the rocks. With some difficulty the passengers were got ashore; and before night, owing to the way in which the heavy swell was grinding the ship on the rocks, it was deemed advisable for the crew to abandon her. [Illustration: “LIGHT BRIGADE.”] [Illustration: “YOUNG AUSTRALIA.”] By the 6th June the wreck had broken in half and was full of water, and on the 7th it was sold by auction in Brisbane, and after some brisk bidding was knocked down to a Mr. Martin for the sum of £7100. The _Champion of the Seas_ foundered off the Horn when homeward bound in 1877. The _White Star_ was wrecked in 1883. _Southern Empire_ fell a victim to the North Atlantic in 1874. _Royal Dane_ was wrecked on the coast of Chile when homeward bound with guano in 1877.