A FAMOUS CLIPPER.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15223, 10 March 1915, Page 11

A FAMOUS CLIPPER.

LOSS OF THE LOCH TORKLDOX. The steamship Orduna, of tho Pacific. Steam Navigation Company, homeward bound from New York, has landed at Liverpool tho 2.3 me.nibe.re of: the crew of th* Kuseiiin iron sailing barque Loch Torridon, of 1999 tons, having picked the men up in hvt. 51 38 N., lane- 23 W., after they, had fired and abandoned tbeir ship. The Loch Torridon, bound from Frcdtrikstad for Geclong wiUi a cargo of wood, sprang a leak, and, being a menaco to chipping, it was decided to fiet her on fire and abandon her. Few ships were at.one timo better known in London and Glasgow and in Australian ports than the Loch Torridon, which, when under the red ensign, made many «mut paseegee. As her name indicates, alio was originally one of the famoue fleet of big sailing ships owned by tbo Loch Line CMieeera Aitkcn, Lilturn and Co.), of Glasgow. The Loch Torridon loaded in Lyttelton in 1897. ' Launched on the Circle in 18S1, she waa an iron four-maeted barque of tho best type. DuTing practically tho whole of her career, aa a British chip, ehe eailed -under tlie command of Captain Robert Pattman. lcar after year eho loaded in this country for the colonies —generally for Adelaide and Melbourne—and with equal regularity, .eho came home to the Thames, berthing "in the London Dock to discharge her cargo of wool and tallow. * One by one, Meeere Aitken, Lilburn and Co. sold tbeir vessels, the throe h»et io bo dieposed of bein» the Loch Torridon. Loch Broom, and Loch Carron." All throe were fonT-maet«re engaged in the Auetraliau trade and there was keen rivalry between tberr respective skippens in regard io the raakinp of smart paeeagea. ■■ - ■