“YOUNG AUSTRALIA.”
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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.
The Morning Star foundered on a passage from Samarang to U.K. in 1879.
The Shalimar was bought by the Swiss and the Morning Light by the Germans, who renamed her J. M. Wendt.
The Queen of the Colonies was wrecked off Ushant in 1874, when bound from Java to Falmouth.
The Legion of Honour went ashore on the Tripoli coast in 1876, after changing her flag.
The Fate of “Marco Polo.”
The Marco Polo in her old age was owned by Wilson & Blain, of South Shields; then the Norwegians bought her. After years in the Quebec timber trade, she was piled up on Cape Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, in August, 1883, and on the 6th her cargo of pitch-pine and the famous old ship herself were sold by auction and only fetched £600.
And so we come to the end of a short but wonderful period in the “History of Sail.”—Sic transit gloria mundi.